It will be only Telugu in Secretariat soon: ABK

GUNTUR: The days when all the official communication in the secretariat will be in Telugu are not far off with the employees of the secretariat being trained in the use of Telugu software.

State official language committee chairman ABK Prasad said that the free online training is being imparted by the National Informatic Centre.

Speaking at an awareness seminar on 'Telugu Language' held by the district-level తెలుగు వికాసం (Telugu Vikasam) at Sri Venkesteswara Vignana Mandir here on Tuesday morning, he reiterated that the Telugu as a language would be accorded the status that is due to it only when all the correspondence in the government departments was done in Telugu.

District collector G Jayalakshmi said that mandal-level committees have been set up to oversee the implementation of Telugu in the district.

Superintendent of police B Sivadhara Reddy said that all First Information Reports were being written in Telugu in Guntur district.

Joint collector Rahul Bojja, district language committee members VV Subba Rao, district educational officer Ramalingam and Zilla Parishad CEO P Sudhakara Rao were present.

Courtesy: NewIndPress