In a joint press meet members of the organization, Mr. Anand G, (Karnataka) (Vice President), Dr. Deepak Pawar, (Maharastra), Dr. Garga Chatterjee, (West Bengal), Dr. Joga Singh, (Punjab) ( President), Dr. P Pavithran, (Keralam), Mr, Rawail Singh, (New Delhi) (Treasurer), Mr. Senthil Nathan, (Tamil Nadu) (Secretary), Mr. Saket Sreebushan Sahu, (Odisha), have informed that CLEAR, Campaign for Language Equality and Rights, a forum for language rights activists from around India is going to organize the celebration of International Mother Language Day on Feb 21, 2017 in New Delhi. As the voices of various language communities in India have started to rise to the higher level, a coming together of language activists will help to move further in the desired direction to win the rights for our languages.
Formed on the sidelines of Language Rights Conference held in Chennai in Sep 20, 2015, CLEAR has become a federation of language rights organizations and activists in different states and regions of the country. We have released a guiding document, named Chennai Declaration of Language Rights on the same day.
On Feb 21, 2016, last year, for the first time in the history of language rights movement in India, representatives of 40 languages had come together to issue the Delhi Demands of Language Rights in New Delhi. Most of the representatives were from the languages fighting for the official status.
For Feb 21, 2017, we are going to organize a meeting of language activists to discuss the strategy for winning language rights in India and specifically rights of Non-Scheduled Languages (38 languages recommended by Sitakanta Mohapatra Committee in 2004).
We would like to emphasize that the representatives of various language communities should share the platform. The programmee is about showing of our solidarity to the public and government and equally an opportunity to identify the fellow travelers from all language communities.
CLEAR welcome to join the event and the organization, CLEAR as well, to represent your language community and share this information with the like-minded people from your language community or other communities.