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ANUKRITI: TRANSLATING INDIA

INTRODUCTION: National Translation Mission is a Government of India initiative to make knowledge accessible in all Indian Languages and facilitate higher education by making knowledge texts accessible to students and academics in all Indian languages. NTM also organising events to create awareness on translation and promote translation. It focuses on building the knowledge base of coming generation, at all levels; there is a need to improve both access and excellence. It translates knowledge texts from 69 disciplines into 22 Indian languages.

AIM OF NTM: The main aim of NTM is to create a knowledge society by transcending language barriers by disseminating knowledge in all Indian languages listed in the VIII schedule of the constitution through translation.

ANUKRITI: TRANSLATING INDIA: Anukriti: Translating India is designed to function as a translation service site in all the Indian languages. The idea of creating such a website was conceived by three institutions devoted to the development of Indian languages in 2001: 1.Central Institute of Indian Languages (MHRD), Mysore 2.National Book Trust, New Delhi 3.Sahitya Academy, New Delhi

Translating India addresses the long felt requirement of creating a mechanism to coordinate the activities in respect of different kinds of translations currently being done by organizations, institutions and individual in sporadic and disorganised manner. It was thought that the monitoring and promotional action could be done by setting up a web based service specially devoted to translation- both literary and non-literary, including machine aided translation in the public domain. The main responsibility of this translation service is to coordinate and thus contribute to the promotion of Indian languages and writing & projecting them abroad. As of now the site contains only already available materials in print and the bibliographic and informative documents produced by Sahitya Academy, such as Who’s who of Indian Writers and the bibliography of translations in Indian languages, translation tools such as the dictionaries, common vocabularies published by the CIIL have been embedded into the site. Other tools like thesauri, cultural groups like glossaries etc. created by the CIIL, NBT, CHD and other agencies will be made available as part of this site eventually and then expanded to include more ambitious like translation memory software, teaching software and machine translation packages.

KINDS OF INFORMATION PROVIDED BY ANUKRITI: About translation: It gives an introductory source view of translation as an active and as an area of research. Professional translation: details of all professional translation organizations across India that undertake translation jobs of different kinds of material from and into various languages. Translator education: details of all the academic courses in translation that are on offer in academic organizations across the country.

TOOLS: This link presents the various kinds of tools or aids that are used in translation of any kind- literary, scientific/technical, administrative, religious and so on. Traditionally printed tools: Thesauri, word-finders, glossaries, cultural vocabularies, spell checkers, technical glossaries, glossaries of various domains. Electronic tools: machine readable dictionaries, parsers, corpora, e-translators, translation memory software, translation teaching software.

PUBLICATIONS: It publishes its editorials and evaluation of the site’s e-journals. Translation Today- The e-zine is the e-journal of Anukriti. It is designed to publish online articles, squibs, review articles by research active translations and of theoretical literature on translation. Inlan: THE E-TRANSLATOR This is a e-translator for Indian language. News and Events this page provides information about events on the translation scene in the country such as details of seminars, conferences, workshops, etc. on translation that have already taken place and the details of those that are going to be held in future.

ACHIEVEMENTS: A total of Rs 59.64 lakhs was allocated for this project during the 10th plan period. Under the ANUKRITI project, as planned; the following has been achieved: •	A translation facilitation website, www.anukriti.net, has been launched and it has been updated and documented on a continual basis all these years. •	Three years’ issues of an online translation journal called ‘Translation Today’ have been brought out so far. •	Translation database and a National Register of Translators are being regularly updated. •	There has been some preliminary groundwork on English-Kannada machine aided translation package. •	Catalogues of translation publications obtained from major publishing houses are being put on the site. •	Details of various courses on translation that are available in the country and abroad are made available on the site. •	Links with different professional translation agencies have been established. •	Online links have been provided for the purchase of various translation software in order to facilitate the online translators. •	A dictionary of terms and a bibliography, relating to translation studies, are in the verge of completion.

REFERENCE: 1.	http://www.ntm.org.in/languages/english/aboutus.aspx 2.	http://www.ntm.org.in/languages/english/whoinvolved.aspx 3.	http://www.anukriti.net/