Malayalam should become a scholarly language in which works even in the areas of science and technology should be written and read, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said.
He was inaugurating Malayanma, the Mother Tongue Day observance, here on Tuesday.
Mr. Vijayan said the government would take steps to promote Malayalam.
The United Nations, he said, had passed a resolution that a person in any country and field had the right to use his or her mother tongue. This right was not being used by all Malayalis. This lack of love for the mother tongue was a cause for concern, he said.
Though Malayalam had been declared the official language, there were many an official who thought that proper administration was possible only in English.
Deliberately working against the decision to make Malayalam the official language was a punishable offence.
Court language
The Justice Narendran Commission, he said, had said that Malayalam should be the court language, but this was yet to be implemented in totality.
He said steps would be taken to ensure that Malayalam was being taught in all schools.
The functioning of the official language cell in the Law Department at the Secretariat would be examined.
The Chief Minister expressed hope that the Mother Tongue Day observance would help in renewal of Malayalam and strengthen it. Mr. Vijayan released a book Pookkalam published by the Malayalam Mission by handing over a copy to poet Sugathakumari, delivered the keynote address.
V.S. Sivakumar, MLA, presided. Malayalam Mission director Suja Susan George was present.
