Interaction on different 6 genera held at Madhes Province

By Our Correspondent , Janakpur, May 1: Sanjay Kumar Yadav, Minister for Finance of Madhes Province, said that the Madhes government was preparing to recognise Maithili, Bhojpuri and Hindi as official languages.

While addressing the provincial-level dialogue programme organised by Madhes Pragya Pratishthan on Sunday, Minister Yadav said that now Nepali is the working language of the provincial government, they would decide to recognise the languages spoken in Madhes along with Maithili, Bhojpuri and Hindi as the working languages. 

Claiming that in the past there was an attempt to suppress the language, literature, art, culture, song-music and drama of Madhes, Minister Yadav asked the Academy to write the ancient history of Madhes and start the task to give it life.

 He suggested reviving history by writing the history in a way that reflects the geography, history and identity of the entire Madhes by involving the scholars of six genres such as language, literature, art, culture, song-music and drama.

 Prof. Ramawatar Yadav, the language expert, said, "All languages of the province are in crisis now. He said that the endangered languages including the mainstream languages are in a state of crisis, whatever the language are, if they are not spoken, they will die, be it Nepali, or Maithili, Bhojpuri or Hindi." Yadav stressed that the Madhes province government should announce the official language of the government as soon as possible.

Chairman of the Academy, Rambahros Kapadi, informed that the Academy has taken forward the work for protection, enhancement and promotion of six genres namely language, literature, art, culture, song-music and drama. 

In that event, Shyamsunder Yadav, Chairman of the Mass Media Authority of Madhes Province, emphasised that the language, culture, and historical and religious heritages of Madhes should be exposed and documented.  He asked to prepare written documents of religious heritages like Salhesh, Dinabhadri, Chinnamasta, Gadhimai  of Madhes and to prepare grammar of languages including Maithili and Bhojpuri.

 In the programme, one expert in each category participated from Saptari, Siraha, Dhanusha, Mahottari, Sarlahi, Rautahat, Bara and Parsa districts.