Minister of Education, Government of India Shri @DrRPNishank chaired the 51st meeting of the Executive Board of National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL) today.

During the meeting, Shri @DrRPNishank expressed his satisfaction about the progress made in promotion of the Urdu language. Many efforts have been made to improve the promotion of Urdu language since 2014, he said.

Shri @DrRPNishank said during 2009-2014, Rs 193.83 Crs were sanctioned to NCPUL. However, during 2015-2020, Rs 402.56 Crs have been sanctioned. During 2009-2014, there were just 1066 centres offering one year diploma in Urdu language. From 2015-2020, the number went up to 1423.

No of students pursuing 1 year diploma course in Urdu language has gone up to 493981 in 2015-2020 from 298595 in 2009-2014. For Diploma & Certificate course in Arabic & Persian language, there were 505 centres in 2009-2014 that went up to 873 in 2015-2020, Shri @DrRPNishank said.

In the same time, no of students for Diploma & Certificate course in Arabic & Persian also went up by 118489. Financial assistance for promotion of Urdu, Arabic & Persian increased from 788 to 1662 for seminars, 1396 to 2357 for books' bulk purchase, 556 to 1166 for manuscripts.

Subsidy to UNI link Urdu newspapers went up from 836 to 1815 Crs in 2015-2020. For Book Fairs, in 2015-2020, 101 Crs were allocated from 69 Crs in 2009-1014. International and National Conference and Seminars budget was increased from 29 to 51 Crs in 2015-2020.

Shri @DrRPNishank gave instructions that Urdu Council should work on propagating #NEP & reach out to people involved in speaking Urdu. Partnerships for promoting Arabic & Persian should be taken by having tie-ups with countries & organisations promoting the languages, he said.