NT Staff Reporter
Panaji Aug 3. 2005: The Chief Minister, Mr Pratapsing Rane today assured the state legislative assembly that the government would encourage Konkani written in Roman script by awarding prizes to the books written in Roman scripts, besides, help to transcript the good books written in Roman script into Devanagri Konkani. Replying to budgetary demand on Official Language amounting to Rs 1.28 crore and Information and Publicity (Rs 14.9 crore), Mr Rane said though the Official Language script is Devanagri, the government has no objection if somebody using Roman script Konkani, and it would encourage such people.
Mr Rane informed the House that the government would organise regional language film festival in October, wherein Konkani and Marathi films will be screened. The demands were adopted with voice vote. To another point raised by Mr Jeetendra Deshprabhu over the Journalists Welfare Fund, Mr Rane said the government would expand the fund. Earlier participating in the debate, Mr Jeetendra Deshprabhu and Deputy Speaker, Ms Victoria Fernandes raised the matter of the Konkani written in Roman script and urged the government to award literary prizes and support the writers.
Mr Deshprabhu said the Devanagri is the official script of the Konkani language and pointed out that the Konkani is also written in Roman and Kannada scripts. He said the original Konkani script is Hole Kannada, but it has now been extinct like Modi script of Devanagri. Mr Deshprabhu also suggested to expand the Journalists Welfare Fund and brought to the notice of the government that meeting of the welfare board was not held for last two years.
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