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Venkaiah Naidu speaks in 10 languages in Rajya Sabha, sets record

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New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday, July 18 set a record of sorts when he spoke in ten languages on the opening day of the monsoon session as he announced that the Upper House now has the facility for simultaneous interpretation in 22 Indian languages.

Of the 22 languages listed in the Eighth Schedule, the Rajya Sabha earlier had simultaneous interpretation services for 17 languages including Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

These services have now been made available for Rajya Sabha members to speak in five more languages — Dogri, Kashmiri, Konkani, Santhali and Sindhi, Venkaiah Naidu announced today.

Making the announcement, Venkaiah Naidu spoke a few words in Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu to inform the members about the simultaneous interpretation service.

However, members will have to give prior notice for an interpreter in the Upper House secretariat.

Venkaiah Naidu also added that there may be some shortcomings in the beginning as translators may not be attuned to the speed of the speaker.

Describing it as a wonderful gesture, Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy said that efforts should also be made to include Sanskrit words in the vocabulary.

During his address, Naidu also said that the Rajya Sabha has for the first time in 66 years, signed a pact with a parliamentary institution of a foreign nation when it entered into an MoU with the Senate of Rwanda earlier this month.

The MoU provides for inter-parliamentary dialogue and parliamentary exchange visits among others, he added.

Till now, only the Lok Sabha used to enter into such kinds of agreements with foreign parliamentary institutions.

PTI

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