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Bharatiya Janata Party · 2019
दावा
संदर्भ अधूरा
डिलीवरी
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शास्त्रीय भाषाओं पर संस्थागत काम जारी रहा और वादे की विशिष्ट प्रतिबद्धताओं का कोई प्रमाण नहीं है। शिक्षा मंत्रालय का 16 मार्च 2026 का उत्तर पाँच शास्त्रीय भाषाओं का वित्तपोषण बताता है — तमिल के लिए ₹12 करोड़ से ₹16.97 करोड़ प्रति वर्ष, और कन्नड़, ओड़िया, मलयालम तथा तेलुगु के लिए ₹0.86 करोड़ से ₹1.87 करोड़ प्रत्येक — और बताता है कि शास्त्रीय तमिल केंद्रीय संस्थान के पास 96,215 ताड़पत्र और 39,061 काग़ज़ी पांडुलिपियाँ हैं, जिनमें से 2,800 डिजिटल हुई हैं। उत्तर जिसका ज़िक्र नहीं करता वह है भारत की भाषाओं और बोलियों की स्थिति पर कोई राष्ट्रीय कार्य बल, संकटग्रस्त या विलुप्त भाषाओं के पुनरुद्धार का कोई कार्यक्रम, या 100 पाणिनि फ़ेलोशिप।
“हम भारत की सभी लिखित और बोली जाने वाली भाषाओं तथा बोलियों की स्थिति के अध्ययन के लिए एक राष्ट्रीय कार्य बल गठित करेंगे। हम संकटग्रस्त या विलुप्त बोलियों और भाषाओं के पुनरुद्धार तथा संवर्धन की दिशा में भी काम करेंगे। संस्कृत के प्रचार पर केंद्रित प्रयास के साथ हम सुनिश्चित करेंगे कि विद्यालय स्तर पर संस्कृत का शिक्षण बढ़े और लोकप्रिय हो। हम देश भर के शोधकर्ताओं और विद्वानों को 100 पाणिनि फ़ेलोशिप भी देंगे।”कोई कैग निष्पादन लेखापरीक्षा प्रकाशित नहीं
इस योजना पर कैग की कोई निष्पादन लेखापरीक्षा प्रकाशित नहीं हुई है। लेखापरीक्षा का न होना इस बात का प्रमाण नहीं है कि दावा सही है या ग़लत।
शास्त्रीय भाषा संवर्धन की कोई कैग लेखापरीक्षा हमारे पास मौजूद रिपोर्टों में संसद में नहीं रखी गई है। यहाँ के आँकड़े शिक्षा मंत्रालय के अपने हैं।
कोई लेखापरीक्षा अवधि नहीं — इस योजना पर कैग की कोई निष्पादन लेखापरीक्षा प्रकाशित नहीं हुई।
₹16.97 crore allocated for Classical Tamil and ₹1.065 crore each for Kannada, Odia, Malayalam and Telugu in 2025-26
तमिल का आवंटन उत्तर में शामिल अन्य चार शास्त्रीय भाषाओं में से हर एक के मुक़ाबले लगभग सोलह गुना है। अक्तूबर 2024 में पाँच और भाषाओं — मराठी, पाली, प्राकृत, असमिया और बांग्ला — को शास्त्रीय दर्जा मिला और वे इस तालिका में नहीं हैं।
Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3883, Promotion of Tamil as a Classical Language — answer by the Ministry of Education
The 2019 manifesto's language commitments, under "Conserving Bharatiya Linguistic Culture", are four and each is specific: a National Task Force "to study the status of all written and spoken languages and dialects in India"; work "towards revival and promotion of vulnerable or extinct dialects and languages"; expanded Sanskrit teaching at school level; and "100 Panini fellowships to researchers and scholars across India".
The Ministry of Education's answer of 16 March 2026 describes real institutional work, none of which is those four things.
On classical languages the funding is set out precisely. For Tamil: ₹12 crore in 2021-22 and 2022-23, ₹15.25 crore in 2023-24, ₹14.30 crore in 2024-25 and ₹16.97 crore in 2025-26. For Kannada, Odia, Malayalam and Telugu: between ₹0.58 crore and ₹1.87 crore each per year. The disparity is worth noting plainly — Tamil receives roughly sixteen times what each of the others gets, a consequence of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil having its own institution while the rest are handled through the Central Institute of Indian Languages.
The conservation record is substantial. The Tamil institute "possesses over 47,500 collections of Classical Tamil texts, 96,215 palm-leaf manuscripts and 39,061 paper manuscripts. 2,800 manuscripts have already been digitised, including palm-leaf manuscript collections of Tolkappiyam, which dates back to around the third century BCE." Forty-one classical Tamil texts have been translated into Hindi and released at Kashi Tamil Sangamam 3.0, and collaborations exist with the University of Malaya, Eastern University of Sri Lanka and the Frankfurt Tamil Sangam.
Set 2,800 digitised against the 1,35,276 manuscripts the institute holds — 96,215 palm-leaf and 39,061 paper — and the scale of what remains is clear: about two per cent. Palm-leaf manuscripts degrade.
On the promise's own four commitments, the answer is silent on all of them. No National Task Force on the status of India's languages is mentioned. No programme for vulnerable or extinct languages appears — India has hundreds of languages classified as endangered, and the Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages runs through CIIL, but this answer does not report it. Sanskrit at school level and the 100 Panini fellowships are not mentioned at all.
One development the answer does not cover but which belongs in the record: five more languages — Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese and Bengali — were accorded classical status in October 2024, taking the total to eleven, and they do not appear in the funding table.
Our verdict is lacks context.
BJP Sankalp Patra 2019 — Lok Sabha election manifesto
“Through this Sankalp Patra, you would get a glimpse of the challenges of the yesteryears, the indomitable efforts made by 130 crore Indians to overcome those challenges and our collective vision for the future… There are two commitments that I am extremely passionate about — doubling of farmer income and housing for all, by the year 2022.”
Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3883, Promotion of Tamil as a Classical Language — answer by the Ministry of Education
“The year-wise details of funds allocated for Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam and Telugu are as under (Rs. in lakhs) — 2021-22: Tamil 1200.00, Kannada 106.50, Odia 58.38, Malayalam 63.97, Telugu 103.15; 2022-23: 1200.00, 171.75, 176.75, 186.75, 171.75; 2023-24: 1525.00, 154.50, 138.50, 112.50, 154.50; 2024-25: 1430.00, 86.00, 86.00, 86.00, 86.00; 2025-26: 1697.00, 106.50, 106.50, 106.50, 106.50… The Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) has developed a rich repository of rare classical resources and possesses over 47,500 collections of Classical Tamil texts, 96,215 palm-leaf manuscripts and 39,061 paper manuscripts. 2,800 manuscripts have already been digitised… Further, 41 ancient Classical Tamil texts have been translated into Hindi and released during the Kashi Tamil Sangamam 3.0… To review the outcomes of initiatives undertaken for the promotion of Classical Tamil, an assessment mechanism has been devised. The Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) has developed a rich repository of rare classical resources and possesses over 47,500 collections of Classical Tamil texts, 96,215 palm-leaf manuscripts and 39,061 paper manuscripts. 2,800 manuscripts have already been digitised, including palm-leaf manuscript collections of Tolkappiyam, which dates back to around the third century BCE. Further, 41 ancient Classical Tamil texts have been translated into Hindi and released during the Kashi Tamil Sangamam 3.0.”