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JAMMU: To disseminate the knowledge related to Agricultural Science to all its stakeholders, the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, New Delhi, in collaboration the Department of Botany, University of Jammu and SKUAST – Jammu on Friday organised a five-day expert meet in the Department of Botany, University of Jammu, to prepare Fundamental Glossary of Agriculture in Dogri language.
Experts from various fields including linguistics, Botany, Agriculture and Dogri language from within and outside the State are participating in the meet. The main objective of the meet sponsored by Government of India is to evolve and coin novel scientific and technical terminology in Dogri to be used in agriculture, and to publish glossaries, definitional dictionaries, encyclopedia etc in Agricultural Sciences.
Assistant Director, CSTT, MHRD, New Delhi, Dr. Shailender Kumar explained that through such creative meets the evolved terms and their definitions would reach the stakeholders including agriculturists, students, teachers, scholars, scientists, agricultural officers etc.
Earlier, Prof. Yash Pal Sharma, Head, Department of Botany and Coordinator of the meet welcomed the CSTT members and experts participating in the meet. Prof Sharma apprised that it is essential to have an effective medium that uses not only the national language but to cater to the needs of the semi-literate and illiterate sections of the agriculturists there is a ardent need for local language based content and technology for meaningful communication for understanding agriculture terms. The society at large can benefit from the translated version of agricultural terms existing in English and Hindi in their own language i.e Dogri, Prof Sharma summed up.
Prominent experts who are attending and participating in the meet are
Prof. Yogi Raj Sharma (Retd. Professor, SKUAST- Jammu) , Prof. V.S Verma, Division of Plant Pathology (SKUAST- Jammu), Prof. S.K Gupta, Head Division of Agro forestry, SKUAST- Jammu, Dr R. K Gupta, Division of Entomology, SKUAST, Jammu, Dr. B.S Slathia, Chhatrapal (President, Dogri Sanstha Jammu and Dogri language expert, Romesh Atri, Sr. Assistant Professor of Botany, Govt. Degree College (Boys), Udhampur, and Dr. Harish Dutt from the Department of Botany, Jammu.