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{{Short description|A Directorate of the Government of Manipur}}

{{See also|Meitei Language Day|Meitei classical language movement|Meitei associate official language movement}}

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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 (linguistics)|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, MEELAL'', etc. also participated in the event.

The training program event was the ''first step'' in forwarding the development of [[Meitei language]] by the Directorate of Language Planning and Implementation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Press |first=Imphal Free |title=DLPI takes measures for developing Manipuri – KanglaOnline |url=http://kanglaonline.com/2013/11/dlpi-takes-measures-for-developing-manipuri/ |access-date=2022-08-22 |language=en-US}}</ref>

During May, 2014, the Directorate of Language Planning and Implementation organised a 10-day workshop on [[terminology]] building for [[Meitei language]] (officially known as [[Manipuri language]]) in the Multipurpose Hall of [[State Council of Educational Research and Training|SCERT]], [[Lamphelpat]]. Experts including professors of various departments of [[Botany]], [[Chemistry]], [[Economics]], [[Geography]], [[Physics]], [[Zoology]] and [[Meitei language]] from different universities took part in the workshop. The purpose of the event was the imparting of education upto graduation level of the ''mentioned general subjects'' in [[Meitei language]] medium. It was in accordance to the provisions of the "Manipur Official Language Act, 1979".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Workshop on Manipuri terminology building begins : 06th may14 ~ E-Pao! Headlines |url=http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=10..060514.may14 |access-date=2022-08-22 |website=e-pao.net}}</ref> The main aim of the event was to discover as many as 30,000 [[Meitei language]] terminologies to replace English terminologies used in three subjects, viz. Physics, Economics and Geography, after which all the practicable Meitei terminologies could be added to a Meitei lexicon.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Workshop on finding Manipuri terminologies begins : 06th may14 ~ E-Pao! Headlines |url=http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=25..060514.may14 |access-date=2022-08-22 |website=e-pao.net}}</ref>

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== Issues and 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>

=== January 2022 ===

During January 2022, in a meeting with the Wakhallon Mannaba Apunba (WAMA), [[Leishemba Sanajaoba]] expressed that he was extremely unsatisfied with the negligence of the [[Department of Language Planning and Implementation]] in the documentation works for inclusion of [[Meitei language]] among the classical languages. The WAMA expressed that such negligence of the Language Department will make the efforts of Sanajaoba, of raising his voice in the [[Rajya Sabha]], useless.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Government must take concrete step for recognition of Manipuri as classical language |url=https://www.ifp.co.in/manipur/government-must-take-concrete-step-for-recognition-of-manipuri-as-classical-language |access-date=2022-08-25 |website=Imphal Free Press |language=en}}</ref>

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== External links ==

* {{Cite web |title=YK College hosts National seminar on Manipuri language |url=https://www.thesangaiexpress.com/Encyc/2020/2/21/Thoubal-Feb-21-The-YK-College-Wangjing-Manipuri-Sahitya-Parishad-Thoubal-branch-and-Khorirol-Sandok-Lup-Wangjing-organised-a-National-seminar-on-aspects-of-Manipuri-language-development-at-the.html |access-date=2022-08-22 |website=www.thesangaiexpress.com |language=en}}