Correct Answer : Dr. Mahendra Kumr Mishra
Indian educationist and social worker for the promotion of indigenous languages in Odisha "Dr. Mahendra Kumr Mishra" was conferred the International Mother Language Award by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Tuesday (21st Feb 2023).
* Dr. Mishra is the first India to receive this award. Dr. Mishra has worked over three decades on the language, culture and education of the marginalised languages of Odisha.
* The award instituted in 2021 by UNESCO is given in recognition of the extraordinary contribution to the preservation, revitalization and development of mother languages.
* Bangladesh Prime Minister Hasina conferred the two national awards and two international awards to four recipients in Dhaka.
* Bangladeshi nationals Habibur Rahman and Ranjit Singha were given the national awards, while Mahendra Kumar Mishra and Mother Language Lovers of World Society, Vancouver, Canada were conferred with the international awards.
* Inaugurating a four-day programme of the International Mother Language Institute and conferring the award on Tuesday (21st Feb 2023), Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stressed the need ‘for research to preserve, revitalise and develop the mother languages of the world as many languages are being lost’.
* Dr. Mahendra Mishra said that the award is a recognition of the marginalised languages which will provide the speakers of these languages an identity in society and the world...
Source : AIR
