Govt employees to get Konkani training!

Govt employees to get Konkani training!
HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, JULY 10, 2009
The Directorate of Official Language based at Junta House, here, is gearing up to train as many Government employees in the usage of Konkani language in an effort to implement the State Official Language Act for daily administrative purposes.
Director G D Padgaonkar informed that the Directorate has recently printed 2,000 copies of the Konkani manual which covers the basics of the language for training purpose. “We have to select teachers to train the employees who have no knowledge of Konkani,” he stated.
Padgaonkar said the number of teachers to be selected will depend upon the total number of employees to be trained for a period of one-month (actual 25 working days). These teachers will be paid an honorarium, he added.
He informed they had received a little over 500 names to undergo the training. “These also include officers and IAS officials,” he added.
The Konkani training manual consisting of 85 pages covers basic Konkani. It has one part covering administrative terms for officers translated into Konkani like ‘at the earliest’, ‘at the instance of’, ‘at this stage’, ‘at your earliest convenience’, etc.
After the training period of one month an examination/test would be held in accordance with the time schedule issued by the Directorate of Official Language.
The syllabus for the training manual was prepared based on the recommendations of a committee coordinated by Dr Tanaji Halarnkar on the lines of Hindi Teaching Scheme of Government of India. The members of the committee are Suresh Borkar, Prof Edward D’Lima, Mukesh Thali and Damodar Ghanekar.