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Ganga Utsav 2020
News: Recently, the Ganga Utsav 2020 has begun which celebrates the glory of the National River Ganga.
Celebrated by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) annually.
Three-day festival
Aim: to promote stakeholder engagement and ensure public participation.
It includes: mystical and cultural river Ganga through storytelling, folklores, and dialogues with eminent personalities etc.
Ganga Utsav 2020
News: Recently, the Ganga Utsav 2020 has begun which celebrates the glory of the National River Ganga.
Celebrated by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) annually.
Three-day festival
Aim: to promote stakeholder engagement and ensure public participation.
It includes: mystical and cultural river Ganga through storytelling, folklores, and dialogues with eminent personalities etc.
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Tulu
News: Tulu speakers have been requesting the governments to give Tulu the official language status and include it in the 8th schedule to the Constitution.
Key points:
- Presently, there are 22 official languages.
- Tulu is a Dravidian language spoken mainly in regions of Karnataka (Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts) and Kerala (Kasaragod district).
- This region is informally known as Tulu Nadu.
- Robert Caldwell (1814-1891), in his book, A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages, called Tulu as one of the most highly developed languages of the Dravidian family.
- Tulu is not an official language in the country.
- Karnataka government introduced Tulu as a language in schools a few years ago.
Tulu
News: Tulu speakers have been requesting the governments to give Tulu the official language status and include it in the 8th schedule to the Constitution.
Key points:
- Presently, there are 22 official languages.
- Tulu is a Dravidian language spoken mainly in regions of Karnataka (Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts) and Kerala (Kasaragod district).
- This region is informally known as Tulu Nadu.
- Robert Caldwell (1814-1891), in his book, A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages, called Tulu as one of the most highly developed languages of the Dravidian family.
- Tulu is not an official language in the country.
- Karnataka government introduced Tulu as a language in schools a few years ago.