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Though [[Meitei Language Day]] (officially called [[Manipuri Language Day]]) is annually observed even before the establishment of the Directorate of Language Planning & Implementation, the Directorate is serving as one of the key organisers of the very annual event after just its inception in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-20 |title=Manipur observes 31st Manipuri Language Day - Eastern Mirror |url=https://easternmirrornagaland.com/manipur-observes-31st-manipuri-language-day/ |access-date=2022-08-22 |website=easternmirrornagaland.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Planning and Implementation works ==

During November 2013, in collaboration with the ''[[Central Institute of Indian Languages]] (CIIL), [[Ministry of Human Resource Development|MHRD]], [[Government of India]], [[Mysore]]'', the Department of Language Planning and Implementation organised a five-day training programme on [[Natural Language Processing]] (NLP) ''in relation to [[Meitei language]]'' in [[Lamphelpat]]. The event took up the initiatives for the provision of the very essential boost for [[Meitei language]] and for ''"building of co-opera"'' in the ''Linguistic Data Consortium of Indian Languages'' (LDCIL). Major significant tasks discussed and highlighted during the event were [[machine translation]] for [[Meitei language]] documents; [[Optical Character Recognition]] (OCR) for Meitei language [[spell checker]], [[transcription]] (and [[transliteration]]) of [[Bengali script]] into [[Meitei script]] ({{lang-mni|[[Meitei Mayek]]}}) and vice versa. The event's main objective was to set up “building of co-opera” containing millions of [[Meitei language]] words, phrases, word meanings, words' [[spelling checker]] in computers.

Experts and scholars of socio-linguistic groups working on [[Meitei literature]], including the ''[[Manipuri Sahitya Parishad]] (MSP), Culture Forum Manipur, KALAM, MEELAN'', etc. also participated in the event.

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During June 2017, the Directorate of Language Planning and Implementation organised a 10-day [[Meetei Mayek]] orientation programme for college teachers who teach [[Meitei language]] as a subject. The venue for the event was at the [[Dhanamanjuri University|DM College]] of Arts, [[Imphal]]. In the event, [[Thokchom Radheshyam Singh]], the then ''Education, Labour & Employment Minister'', launched [[Meitei language]] textbooks (in [[Meitei Mayek]]) for the academic degree in [[Bachelor of Arts]] on [[e-book]] formats.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Education Minister stresses development of indigenous language : 14th jun17 ~ E-Pao! Headlines |url=http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=9..140617.jun17 |access-date=2022-08-22 |website=e-pao.net}}</ref>

== Demands ==

=== November 2020 ===

During November 2020, in response to the then education minister's statement of introducing [[Sanskrit]] as a subject in selected schools and colleges of [[Manipur]], there were strong criticism of the minister's plan from the sides of various social organizations. A spearheading social organization, "MEELAL" (Meetei Erol Eyek Loinasillol Apunba Lup) demanded the [[Government of Manipur]] that there should be state language departments other than Directorate of Language Planning and Implementation (DLPI) and the concerned authorities should first work on the development and the promotion of [[Manipur]]'s indigenous languages and [[Meetei Mayek]] writing system before promoting other languages.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Education Minister's statement on introduction of Sanskrit in select schools, colleges draws flak : 22nd nov20 ~ E-Pao! Headlines |url=http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=14..221120.nov20 |access-date=2022-08-22 |website=e-pao.net}}</ref>