Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology

About Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology:

• It was set up in December 1960, to evolve and define scientific and technical terms in Hindi and all Indian languages. 
• It was established under clause (4) of Article 344of the Constitution of India.
• It is functioning under the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India with its headquarters in New Delhi.
• Primary Function:Evolve standard terminology, propagate its use and distribute it widely.
• Other functions:
  • Preparation and Publication of Bilingual and Trilingual Glossaries involving English/Hindi and other Indian Languages.
  • Preparation and Publication of National terminology.
  • Identification and Publication of School Level Terminologyand Departmental Glossaries.
  • Identification of Pan-Indian Terms.
  • Preparation of Definitional Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias.
  • Preparation of university-level textbooks, monographs and journals.
  • Grant-in-Aid to Granth Academies, Textbook Boards and University Cells for University level books in regional languages.
  • Propagation, expansion and critical review of terms coined and defined through training/orientation programmes, workshops, seminars etc.
  • Providing necessary terminology to the National Translation Mission.

Recent initiative of Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology

• It has launched the web portal ‘shabd.education.gov.in’ aims to be a central repository for all the terminologies prepared for Indian languages.
• Besides all the glossaries of CSTT, other institutions or agencies having such dictionaries are also able to host their work in digital form on this platform.