The opposition benches on Wednesday cornered the State government over its failure to promote and give due recognition to Konkani, the official language of Goa.
The issue of the the Konkani language was raised in the Assembly by Quepem ML A Altone D’Costa.
“Work has aldready begun to have government websites in bilingual languages. Goa Electronic Ltd (GEL) has been designated for the job. Henceforth, important content of official websites will also be available in the Konkani language,” CM Sawant said to the question by the Quepem MLA .
He further that there should be a penal provision in the official language act, or it should be made mandatory.
Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai claimed that it is an irony that the official language department’s website itself is not in Konkani.
Sawant said that Draft Policy for Multilingual Websites for all Government Departments has already been approved by the Government, and necessary instructions shall be issued to all government/semi-government and Government corporations to display all the information in the official language
CM said that Translators provide translation from English to Konkani and vice versa and from English to Marathi and vice versa as and when any Department requests for the translation of Government documents and the same are provided in concern language.
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