Admitting that modern technology was needed to improve Urdu-medium schools, District in-charge and Water Resources Minister M.B. Patil has said that he will ask the government to provide computers with Internet connection in all Urdu-medium schools in the State.
He was speaking after inaugurating a divisional-level workshop on ‘effective Urdu teaching and its positive implications’, organised jointly by the Karnataka State Urdu Academy and Anjuman Arts, Science and Commerce College, on Saturday.
The Minister also promised to get libraries established in all Urdu-medium schools for informing students and teachers about the progress in various fields.
Asserting that Urdu was an ancient and rich language of the world, he said that the language should be preserved for future generations.
On the occasion, he informed that Adil Shahi literature, which was being translated into Kannada, would also be translted done in Urdu and English.
Mr. Patil said that already around 20 volumes have been translated into Kannada from Persian and Dakhani Urdu.
On the demand of constructing Urdu Bhavan here, he asked the BDA to grant a suitable land for the purpose.
