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Academy plans to widen scope of Tulu, teach at PU level

Academy plans to widen scope of Tulu, teach at PU level


Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, Aug 22, 2016: Tulu is already a subject in classes 6 to 10 as the third optional language in DK and Udupi districts, the Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy has now written to the State government to introduce the language at the pre-university level.

Following a letter on this from M. Janaki Brahmavar, president of the academy, Tanveer Sait, Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, wrote to the Principal Secretary of the department on July 22 to look into the possibility.

Academy Prez Brahmavar, in her July 20 letter to the Minister, requested that the government permit introducing Tulu at the pre-university from the academic year 2017-18. Earlier, the government, in its order dated March 26, 2010, had allowed Tulu to be taught in schools in the two districts.

Tulu Academy’s Janaki Brahmavar said that in 2016-17, as many as 956 students studied Tulu from Class I to 10 in 20 schools in the two districts. Of them, 313 students are with the  SSLC,Secondary School Leaving Certificate  Board.

According to the Academy President, the academy bears the salary of teachers teaching Tulu has prompted more schools to take interest in teaching the language as in 2015-16, only 267 students studied Tulu in eight schools. The academy gave Rs. 3,000 to every teacher per month for teaching the language.

The academy has reserved a budget of Rs. 7 lakh for paying salary in the current financial year. It paid Rs. 3.5 lakh in the last financial year.    B. Chandrahasa Rai, registrar of the academy, said Sujanya of Pragati English-Medium School, Kaniyoor, Puttur taluk, had scored 100 per cent marks in her Tulu third optional paper in the final SSLC examination in 2015-16. Three others scored 99 marks. He said that of the 20 schools teaching Tulu in the current academic year, 12 are in Puttur taluk. Udupi district has only one school. All 25 Tulu students who appeared for the SSLC exam last academic year passed.
Tulu academy stops funding ’Cognate Dictionary Project’ :  After spending Rs. 8 lakh on the work of the Tulu Jnati Padakosha (Tulu Cognate Dictionary) during 2015-16, the Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy has discontinued funding the project.  It was a joint initiative of the academy and Nitte University, started in 2015. According to the proposal, the academy was to fund the project for two years and Nitte University for one year. However, the academy is upset with the differences of opinion among four members of the editorial board working on the project. Subsequently, two of them quit.  “We tried to bring rapprochement among the members by holding at least three meetings. But it did not materialise,” said M. Janaki Brahmavar, president of the Tulu academy.   She said the academy has not allocated funds for the project this financial year. Now, two remaining board members are going ahead with the project under Nitte University.

The project aim is to finding out whether a word used in Tulu was being spoken in Kannada, Kodava, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. If so, the work involved framing cognate words for those languages belonging to one family. It took Tulu words as keywords and Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Kodava as the cognate languages.


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