The Chief Minister said that the dialects, folk tales, folk songs and literature of Uttarakhand will be preserved in digital form.
Speech and essay competitions will be held in local dialects once a week in schools. At the same time, the amount of Uttarakhand Sahitya Bhushan Award will be increased from five lakh to five lakh 51 thousand rupees. Long Term Sahitya Sevak Samman will also be given. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami announced this in the general assembly and management executive committee meeting held in the secretariat of Uttarakhand Bhasha Sansthan.
The Chief Minister said that the dialects, folk tales, folk songs and literature of Uttarakhand will be preserved in digital form. For this, an e-library should be created. Along with increasing the collection based on folk tales, audio visuals should also be made on them. Festivals of Uttarakhand language and literature should be organized on a large scale, in which litterateurs from all over the country should be invited. A linguistic map of the dialects of Uttarakhand should be made.
