The Language Friendship Bridge

By IASbook Team September 23, 2023 Current Affairs, Educational Resources 0 Comments

The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in April 2023, has launched a project called ‘The Language Friendship Bridge’.
The project is launched to train people & create a pool of experts in 10 languages (like Kazakh, Uzbek, Burmese, and Sinhalese) that are spoken in countries with which India has historical & cultural ties like Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, and Indonesia.

- The project aims to enable India to translate its epics and classics, as well as contemporary literature, into these languages so that people in both countries can read them.

ICCR

The ICCR is an autonomous organisation of the Government of India under the Ministry of External Affairs.
It promotes cultural diplomacy through cultural exchange with other countries.
It was founded in 1950 by India’s first Education Minister, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
ICCR has been assigned the responsibility of facilitating the celebration of the International Day of Yoga by Indian Missions/Posts abroad since 2015.