Int'l Mother Language Institute Bill 2010 approved
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
The cabinet has approved the International Mother Language Institute Bill 2010 (IMLI), which stipulates the country's Prime Minister (PM) as its chief patron and education minister as the chairman of its governing body.
The cabinet meeting was held with PM Sheikh Hasina in the chair at the Bangladesh Secretariat Monday.
Briefing journalists at the Press Information Department, Press Secretary to the PM Abul Kalam Azad said, "According to the approved IMLI Act 2010, the institute will be headed by a 23-member governing body".
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on February 21 this year formally inaugurated the International Mother Language Institute with a declaration that her government wants to make it an autonomous institution furnished with modern facilities for research on all languages, equipped with a world-class library.
The press secretary said the institute would be an autonomous institution which would run lots of research to preserve the world's languages, as well as all historical documents and souvenirs of the 1952 Language Movement. Azad said the initiative was first taken to establish the institute by the last Awami League government.
The construction work was started from April of 2001 as a part of the then government's mega plan to create a 'cultural ring' centring Suhrawardi Udyan, Bangla Academy and Shilpakala Academy areas, Azad said .
But later the next BNP-Jamaat government had stopped the construction work, Azad said.
The International Mother Language Institute has been established as the continuation of the global community's recognition of the great sacrifices of the Bangali people to uphold the dignity of their mother language on February 21, 1952.
The nation first got global recognition for the glorious history of the language movement when on 17 November, 1999, UNESCO, the cultural and educational wing of the UN, declared February 21 as the International Mother Language Day.
The cabinet meeting was held with PM Sheikh Hasina in the chair at the Bangladesh Secretariat Monday.
Briefing journalists at the Press Information Department, Press Secretary to the PM Abul Kalam Azad said, "According to the approved IMLI Act 2010, the institute will be headed by a 23-member governing body".
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on February 21 this year formally inaugurated the International Mother Language Institute with a declaration that her government wants to make it an autonomous institution furnished with modern facilities for research on all languages, equipped with a world-class library.
The press secretary said the institute would be an autonomous institution which would run lots of research to preserve the world's languages, as well as all historical documents and souvenirs of the 1952 Language Movement. Azad said the initiative was first taken to establish the institute by the last Awami League government.
The construction work was started from April of 2001 as a part of the then government's mega plan to create a 'cultural ring' centring Suhrawardi Udyan, Bangla Academy and Shilpakala Academy areas, Azad said .
But later the next BNP-Jamaat government had stopped the construction work, Azad said.
The International Mother Language Institute has been established as the continuation of the global community's recognition of the great sacrifices of the Bangali people to uphold the dignity of their mother language on February 21, 1952.
The nation first got global recognition for the glorious history of the language movement when on 17 November, 1999, UNESCO, the cultural and educational wing of the UN, declared February 21 as the International Mother Language Day.