Plan for government department websites in Telugu
Volume of IT services from State to double by 2015
Friendly gesture: Chairman of Official Language Commission A.B.K. Prasad (right) looks on as IT Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah is greeted by former Minister Mandali Buddha Prasad at the Telugu Internet conference in Hyderabad on Saturday.
HYDERABAD: Minister for Information Technology Ponnala Lakshmaiah has admitted that that the efforts of the State government in promoting Telugu have been sloppy compared to the support given to Tamil by the Tamil Nadu government.
Speaking at ‘Telugu Antarjala Sadassu' (Telugu Internet Meet), jointly organised by SliconAndhra and Information Technology Department here on Saturday, the Minister assured that Telugu would be used as a way forward in this age of information revolution. The government would apply for the membership in Uni Code consortium to make Telugu most user-friendly on the ‘jaalagolam' (web).
Further, he assured that efforts would be made to provide all State government departments' websites in Telugu. The organisations and companies that would shoulder the cause would be given incentives and concessions, he announced. The IT Department would act like a bridge between the organisations working for popularising Telugu and the government, he said.
On the progress of IT sector in the State, the Minister stated that the volume of IT and ITES from the State were likely to double by 2015 from the present Rs. 36,000 crore.
Founder-president of SiliconAndhra, a US-based organisation working for promoting Telugu, Kuchibhotla Anand said the meet was organised to plan for the first international Telugu internet meet. Tamils were ahead of other languages in the country in promoting their language and they had recently held the 10 {+t} {+h} international Tamil Internet meet as part of World Tamil Conference held at Coimbatore. He stressed the need for a dedicated and complete search engine in Telugu as the ones developed by Japanese, Chinese and Tamils. Professor in Hyderabad Central University Garapati Umamaheswara Rao said six papers would be presented in the meet on improving the usage of Telugu in Internet, formation of Telugu font in Uni Code and others. Former Minister Mandali Budda Prasad and others also spoke
HYDERABAD: Minister for Information Technology Ponnala Lakshmaiah has admitted that that the efforts of the State government in promoting Telugu have been sloppy compared to the support given to Tamil by the Tamil Nadu government.
Speaking at ‘Telugu Antarjala Sadassu' (Telugu Internet Meet), jointly organised by SliconAndhra and Information Technology Department here on Saturday, the Minister assured that Telugu would be used as a way forward in this age of information revolution. The government would apply for the membership in Uni Code consortium to make Telugu most user-friendly on the ‘jaalagolam' (web).
Further, he assured that efforts would be made to provide all State government departments' websites in Telugu. The organisations and companies that would shoulder the cause would be given incentives and concessions, he announced. The IT Department would act like a bridge between the organisations working for popularising Telugu and the government, he said.
On the progress of IT sector in the State, the Minister stated that the volume of IT and ITES from the State were likely to double by 2015 from the present Rs. 36,000 crore.
Founder-president of SiliconAndhra, a US-based organisation working for promoting Telugu, Kuchibhotla Anand said the meet was organised to plan for the first international Telugu internet meet. Tamils were ahead of other languages in the country in promoting their language and they had recently held the 10 {+t} {+h} international Tamil Internet meet as part of World Tamil Conference held at Coimbatore. He stressed the need for a dedicated and complete search engine in Telugu as the ones developed by Japanese, Chinese and Tamils. Professor in Hyderabad Central University Garapati Umamaheswara Rao said six papers would be presented in the meet on improving the usage of Telugu in Internet, formation of Telugu font in Uni Code and others. Former Minister Mandali Budda Prasad and others also spoke
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