About National Translation Mission
National Translation Mission (NTM) is a Government of India initiative to make knowledge-based texts accessible in all Indian languages listed in the VIII schedule of the Constitution through translation. The idea of NTM stemmed from a statement of the Prime Minister of India stressing how vital is the access to translated material, for increasing access to knowledge in many critical areas.
Other objectives:
Dissemination of information on Translation of various texts into Indian languages
Creation of a high quality corpus of knowledge-based texts in Indian languages through translation
Generation of high quality translation tools such as dictionaries and the sauri
Provide support for research and development on software for translation, memory, word-finders, wordnet etc.
Translator education through short term Orientation programmes & courses
Accreditation for translators
Fellowships & grants for research projects
Promotion of machine translation and machine aided translation between English and Indian languages, one Indian language and another Indian language, between Indian languages and major world languages.
NTM Beneficiaries: |
Rural and weaker section students having little access to the knowledge, in nature, available mostly in English.
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Teachers of various subjects and levels, |
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Volunteers engaged in providing non-formal education, |
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NGOs working on public health, civil rights, environment, popular science etc. |
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Agencies and individuals looking out for interpreters, |
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Film and documentary producers looking forward for subtitles and multilingual releases, |
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FM and other radio houses waiting to air programmes in different languages, |
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General public eager to read literary and knowledge texts in their own languages, |
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Publishers in vernacular languages looking out for new and interesting ventures, |
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Translators who get employed, |
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Translation departments and researchers from various universities and institution, |
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Translation software developers, comparative literature scholars etc. |
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