Thursday, March 14, 2013

Regarding National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL).

Dear Minister,
I regret to say that even now the Ministry is not serious about this organization. Instead of appointing a full-fledged director, the Ministry has given additional responsibility of directorship to Dr. Khwaja Md Ekramuddin of JNU for more than a year. Though the post was advertised in April 2012, yet the Ministry did nothing to actually appoint the director. This shows the non-serious attitude of the Ministry towards this organization.



Therefore, this is to request you to take up the matter of the NCPUL on priority basis and bring its functioning on track. For this a full time director should be appointed without any further delay otherwise we will be forced to approach the court again through filing another PIL questioning the Ministry’s role in the malfunctioning of this organization and sheer wastage of a big portion of the budget allocated for the promotion of Urdu as a minority language.

Regarding functioning the NCPUL I had sent some suggestions through my letter dated March 21, 2012 (a copy is attached as Annexure 2 ). May I request you to let me know whether any action was taken in this regard? And if no action was taken, may I request you to reconsider my proposal.