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Computing Important For Progressive & Developed India: Dr. Abdul
Kalam
Tuesday November 16, 2010 11:23:52 AM,
Pervez Bari, ummid.com
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Bhopal:
Former President Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam has said that language
computing has an important role to play for making the country
progressive and developed. He said that self dependence in
agriculture and food processing, education and health, information
and technology, qualitative electricity, road, availability of
infrastructure and technology is must for a developed India in the
year 2020.
Dr. Abdul Kalam made above observation while inaugurating the
language computing workshop at the Academy of Administration and
Management here today. He said that the local language should be
given digitalization which is language computing in real meaning.
He said that the heritage documents in local language should also
be digitalized and they should be changed into Unicode through
Optical Character Recognition method. In this way, documents
written in local languages not only be digitalized, but also
people can reach them through Internet. This will help greatly to
improve knowledge of students, villagers, and people living in
small towns. The necessity of using English compulsorily will be
stopped and those without knowledge of English will also be able
to take benefit of this knowledge. He said that if we computerize
the local language, particularly Hindi, a large number of people
will be benefited with it.
He said that Unicode is such a universal character which is used
for presenting the subject in computer process. Unicode is very
useful for those using computer on multi-language system. With
this effort, crores of people of our country who speak 18
different languages need not know using English keyboard for
operating computer can take advantage of Internet.
The former President said that by using Unicode the state
government will be able to provide better service to the citizens
in the local language. For example a farmer of a village near
Bhopal will be able to know about agriculture development,
agriculture products, marketing and expert advice in Hindi from
Tamil Nadu through his mobile phone. This way the citizens of this
country will create knowledge-based society very fast. In this
society knowledge will become strength and it will be ready to
compete with the whole world.
Discussing role of language computing in this era of development
Dr. Abdul Kalam said that with this the gap between the developed
and developing world could be filled and better relations based on
competition could be established. He said that in the global
innovation index the position of India is 15th.
"We will have to come up from this position and should reach the
top through competition and thereby improve our strength. Our
leadership should have such vision through which it can take the
society and country to such areas which are so far untouched", Dr.
Abdul Kalam opined.
Madhya Pradesh School Education Minister Mrs. Archana Chitnis, who
presided over the inaugural session of the workshop, said that
there are unlimited opportunities in the state where quality and
quantity is equally available. She said that technology and
culture unites the country. Mrs. Chitnis said that Madhya Pradesh
is a leader in language computing and it will be established that
the common man takes advantage of technology through Hindi. She
said that our technology should be helpful for developing the
country and not to hurt our pride. Only school education
department will be able to play lead role in this direction. Dr.
Mahesh Kulkarni said that use of Indian languages is being
increased in computer. Now people will be able to work in Hindi
also on computer. He said that use of Hindi is very important in
e-governance. Prashant Mehta said that all state government
departments have developed their own computer software. It is very
necessary that using computer language should be simplified in
Hindi.
In the second session of the workshop Dr. Mahesh Kulkarni, Arun
Ramratnam from Bangaluru, Anurag Shrivastava, J N Narsimhamurti,
Dr. Amba Kulkarni and others spoke on different subjects.
(pervezbari@eth.net)
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