Vice-President Naidu calls for protecting, promoting Indian languages

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Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday called for protecting and promoting Indian languages, and making education compulsory in the mother tongue at primary level. Inaugurating a webinar on “Knowledge Creation: Mother Tongue”, organised by the University of Hyderabad and the Telugu Academy, he asked the state governments to give a “special thrust” to their respective official languages. The V-P said about 90 per cent of the Nobel Laureates, barring Nobel Peace prize recipients, until 2017 were those who completed their education in their mother tongue. The efforts of Naidu, whose mother tongue is Telugu, have a context. Last November,