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Mauritius' bill on Spoken Sanskrit, a bill for Spoken Sanskrit in its National Assembly
While India was running heated discussions and fasts-unto-deaths
on corruption, Lokpal and related issues, Government of Mauritius
in was passing a bill for Spoken Sanskrit in its National
Assembly.
The object of this Bill is "to provide for the establishment,
operation and management of the Sanskrit-speaking
Union" that is to empower Sanskrit as a language to bind
people of Indian origin together in a distant land. The Union shall
consist of members having an interest in the development,
propagation and promotion of the Sanskrit language. The Union shall
be administered and managed by an Executive Council consisting of
12 elected members elected and a representative of the
Ministry.
The objects and functions of the Union are listed as –
(a) promote the Sanskrit language in its spoken and written
forms;
(b) promote friendship and understanding between the
Sanskritspeaking peoples of the world and to engage in any
educational, academic, cultural and artistic work to further that
objective;
(c) provide facilities for the exchange of views affecting the
interest, well-being, development, relationships and common
problems of the Sanskrit-speaking peoples of the world;
(d) promote and encourage the linguistic development among all
people having an interest in the Sanskrit language with special
emphasis on the cultural, artistic, economic and social
perspectives of the language;
(e) provide facilities for exchange programmes, scholarships and
social intercourse between the Union and other organisations at
international level;
(f) promote, organise and encourage correspondence, conferences,
seminars, workshops, debates, elocution exercises, training,
competitions, artistic performances and demonstrations for persons
interested in the Sanskrit language;
(g) promote, organise and encourage literary activities and the
interchange of Sanskrit books, pamphlets, periodicals and other
information among local universities, colleges, schools and other
institutions, and with overseas educational institutions;
(h) promote and encourage the publication, exhibition, distribution
and sale of Sanskrit books, magazines, newspapers and other
literary works;
(i) promote intercultural and interlinguistic understanding and
harmony through exchange and participation in joint projects;
(j) open branches throughout Mauritius on a regional basis and be
affiliated to any organisation in another country whose objectives
are similar to those of the Union;
(k) undertake and carry out all such work as may be deemed
necessary for the attainment of the objects of the Union and to do
all such things as are incidental or conducive to the
accomplishment of any or all of them.
Copy of Bill : Click to open the link
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