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.
