Regional Language Centres and Extension Services
Background Information of RLCs
Objectives
The main objective of the Regional Language Centres of the C.I.I.L as laid down in the EFC Memo No.F.4-1/69-IL-II dated September 17, 1969 is to help State Governments implement three language formula.
Creating resource persons and materials.
Offering short-term and Intensive as well as full time courses in various Indian Languages.
Training existing graduate teachers of the country.
Locations and other details :
Four RLCs were set up in 1970 in fulfillment of the commitment made by the then Union Education in the Floor of Parliament for making trained teachers available to States and UTs for implementing Three Language Formula.
First four Centres are ERLC, Laxmisagar, Bhubaneswar, NRLC, Punjabi University Campus, Patiala-2, SRLC, Manasagangotri, Mysore -6 and WRLC, Deccan College Campus, Pune-6.
Later two more centres, UTRC, Solan, Saproon, Himachal Pradesh and UTRC, Madan Mohan Malaviya Marg, Lucknow-2, were set up at the request of the State Governments of Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
In 1989, NERLC was set up as partial fulfilment of Government of India's commitment for the implementation of Assam Accord.
Infrastructure
SRLC, NRLC and ERLC are functioning in beautiful campuses having their own buildings for Office and Hostels. Other Centres are functioning in buildings given by State Governments and Autonomous Bodies and hired ones.
Current Information of RLCs
Physical Facilities
Each Centre has
Office rooms, Teaching Halls, Auditoriums and Hostel Buildings.
A Library with more than 15000 books and about 20 Research Journals well equipped with reading rooms and reference sections.
A modern language laboratory, having 20 to 25 booths and each containing modern Audio and Video equipments.
A reprographic section.
Modern communication facilities.
Man Power :
One Principal supported by Faculty members - 4 for Tamil, 4 Kannada and 2 members each of other languages and necessary Ministerial staff.
Some centres have positions like Junior Research Officer and Research Assistants who are pursuing research in various language related fields.
Library
The Library in each centre contains
Books in the languages being taught in the Centre concerned.
Books on Linguistics.
Books on general English and General Knowledge.
Dictionaries in the Languages concerned and English.
Encyclopedias.
Journals in Linguistics.
Journals in Indian Languages Concerned.
Newspapers
Maps and Charts
Training Facility
The centres offer ten-months training courses leading to Diploma in 15 languages as under :
SRLC in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu
WRLC in Gujarati, Marathi and Sindhi
ERLC in Assamese, Bengali and Oriya
NRLC in Kashmiri, Punjabi and Urdu
UTRC (Lucknow) in Urdu
UTRC (Solan) in Urdu
NERLC in Manipuri and Nepali
Centres also offer Orientation Courses in Mother tongue teaching to Primary, Middle and Secondary school teachers.
Centres also offer need based courses in Indian Languages for selected consumers.
Centers also offer contact-cum-correspondence courses leading to Diploma in Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
Research & Material Production
A. Each Centre is engaged in fundamental research in the languages being taught in the Centre concerned. In addition to this, some Centres also conduct research in the Tribal or Border languages of the region.
B. Each Centre produces the necessary materials for teaching the languages concerned as second language. Such materials include :
An Intensive Course in each language
A Phonetic Reader
An Intermediate Reader
An Advanced Course Reader
A Cultural Reader
A Recall Vocabulary
Hindi-Regional Language common vocabulary
A brief history of the Languages concerned
A Script book
A Pictorial Glossary
C. Text Books for School Children For facilitating teaching the Indian languages to school children the Centres also produce
State School Reader- Level I, II and III
Model Question papers for School Children in each language
D. Research
Two Research projects have been compiled by RLCs
Intralingual and Developmental Errors of Bengali Learners by Dr.P.N.Dutta Baruah
Classroom observation in Boro and Assamese medium schools
Members of RLC faculty also have carried out a lot of Research on Error Analysis. Important ones are
- Errors of Urdu Learners
- Errors of Tamil Learners
- Errors of Gujarati Learners
Publication
Intensive Courses, Phonetic Readers, Vocabularies and State School Readers in all languages have been published through C.I.I.L. Intermediate and Advance Readers, Pictorial Glossaries in most of the languages are also published, while same for other languages are at different stages of publication.
Collaboration
The centres keep close liaison with State Government Agencies such as SCERT, SLI, Cultural and Sahitya Academies and other language & tribal research organisations as well as with the directorates of secondary educations of the region and the language departments of the universities of the region.
The centres offer langauge counselling to the State bodies as above, conducts collaborative programmes such as seminars, workshops, short term training programmes etc. and collaborate with State Agencies in the preparation of dictionaries and translation of classical literary works
Surveys and Dialogues
The various Centres of the Institute conduct :
Various Seminars, Conferences and workshops in various language related issues for enriching knowledge base by sharing ideas with scholars drawn from different Institutions.
Contact programmes for giving on the spot conselling to ex-trainees and creating awareness among educational authorities of States
Inspection of schools where teaching of various Indian languages are going on and offer consultations.
Test in Indian Languages for the school children who are learning languages under C.I.I.L scheme
About 300 Refresher Courses have been conducted in various languages.
380 Book Corners are established in the schools in various States.
About 120 N.I. Camps have been conducted in various languages, where school children learning the non-mother tongues from our ex-trainees participate and mingle with peer groups of the hosting States.
About 4000 trained teachers are teaching the language in the schools either within or outside the school curriculum.
About 3000 teachers got cash incentives for teaching the languages in schools under CIIL Scheme.
Increase the annual intake capacity of trainees to 600 for 15 languages
Conduct 15 N.I. Camps in 15 Languages every year.
Conduct 15 Refresher Courses every year.
Organise 7 Contact programmes in seven regions for ex-teacher trainees and education authorities every year.
Establish 20 book corners in each of 17 languages every year.
Conduct language exams in schools for all the 17 languages
Increase Cash Allowance to teachers teaching the language in schools
Establish an Information Centre in each Regional Centre
Organise regular Extension (schoo0l inspection) Programs to the schools where teaching is going on.
Persuade the State Governments and UT to incorporate teaching of Indian Languages under CIIL Scheme.
Field Activity
Future Programmes
The Regional Language Centres intend to