JNU to start new School of Indian Languages in bid to celebrate country's cultural diversity

"Several states have shown interest in this regard and Tamil Nadu has already given INR 10 crore for its centre," Pandit said.

JNU to start new School of Indian Languages in bid to celebrate country's cultural diversity

Jawaharlal Nehru University has announced that it will start a new School of Indian Languages where courses on different languages will be offered next year in a bid to celebrate the country's cultural diversity.

While addressing a press conference, JNU Vice Chancellor Santishree D Pandit said "the School of Indian Languages would house centres for different states where literature, culture, and history would be taught."

"Several states have shown interest in this regard and Tamil Nadu has already given INR 10 crore for its centre," Pandit said.

JNU is setting up a new School of new School of Indian Languages where different state governments are giving the university a corpus to set up chairs. They will become special centres of not only languages but also literature, culture and history of that state.

"Tamil Nadu has already given Rs 10 crore. Four more states -- Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Assam will give Rs 10 crore each. We will have a corpus of Rs 50 crore," Pandit said.

Recently, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin had also sanctioned about INR 10 crore for the Centre for Tamil Studies. The vice-chancellor said "it was approaching different states in this regard."

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