- The Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT), under the Union Education Ministry, has launched a website, shabd.education.gov.in, providing technical terms in all 22 official Indian languages.
- This platform serves as a central repository for terminologies prepared by CSTT and other institutions with similar dictionaries.
- Currently, 450 dictionaries with three million words are available.
- Users can search for scientific and technical terms in Indian languages, provide feedback, and search by language, subject, dictionary type, or language pairs.
- This website is particularly significant in the ongoing efforts to offer technical education, including in medicine and engineering, in Indian languages.
| Commission for Scientific & Technical Terminology (CSTT) • It was set up in 1960 by a resolution of the Government of India under the proviso to Clause (4) of Article 344 of the Constitution. • To evolve and define scientific and technical terms in Hindi and all Indian languages; publish glossaries, definitional dictionaries and encyclopaedia.; to see that the evolved terms and their definitions reach the students, teachers, scholars, scientists, officers etc. |
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