Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology

Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology

Subject : Science & tech

Context :A website and app by the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology will update technical terminology in Indian languages in keeping with the National Education Policy, which advocates teaching in the mother tongue and local languages as far as possible.

Concept : 

• The Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology will soon launch Shabd Shala, a website to invite suggestions for translation of words that are recent additions to the English language.
• Technical terms from disciplines like Linguistics, Public Policy, Finance, Agriculture and Engineering will also be available on the website — shabd.education.gov.nic — and will be launched as an app, too.
• The domain for the website has been registered and it’s expected to become operational before the start of the next academic session.

Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology(CSTT)

• CSTT was established in December 1960 by Government of India resolution under provision Article 344(4) of Constitution
• Presently, CSTT is functioning under the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India with its headquarters at New Delhi.
• The main objective is to evolve standard terminology, propagate its use, and distribute it widely.
• The commission is mandated to collaborate with State governments, universities, regional textbook Boards, and State ‘Granth Academies’, which are nodal bodies in-charge of providing translations of English textbooks in local languages for institutions of higher education.
• Eighteen States were mandated to have Granth Academies.