New Delhi, Sept 14, 2001

LILA HINDI PRAVEEN, self-learning software was launched by the Hon'ble Union Home Minister Shri. Lal Krishna Advani at a Hindi Day function at Vigyan Bhawan here today. LILA HINDI PRAVEEN has been developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and the Department of Official Language (DOL), Ministry of Home Affairs.

Releasing the software Shri. Advani said, "To take pride in Hindi does not mean taking on a quarrel with English. We should capitalize on the strength of English to enrich and develop our languages. Technology eliminates distances between languages and therefore we should integrate language with technology." He lauded the efforts made by C-DAC and the DOL in this direction.

Speaking on the occasion Shri. R.K. Arora, Executive Director of C-DAC, said, "Our objective is to develop all such tools and utilities in our languages which are necessary for developing various IT applications." He further added, "In today's world, learning a language can give one a competitive edge. LILA HINDI PRAVEEN is intended for use by all those who would like to learn Hindi through the medium of English including employees in Government organizations, Corporate bodies as also Indians living abroad. It would greatly aid in effective day-to-day communication as well as in official transactions."

LILA HINDI PRAVEEN is the second in the series of the multimedia based self-tutoring package for learning advanced level Hindi. The first package in the series, LILA Hindi Prabodh has already been released earlier.

LILA HINDI PRAVEEN is equally suitable for those who want to pursue advanced Hindi. It is also useful for teachers who can use it as a supplementary aid, particularly in reducing the routine effort of administering and evaluating exercises, teaching grammar and narrating texts with standard pronunciations and intonation' he added.

Every lesson has a movie running alongside the narrative. The sentences spoken in the video get highlighted in the text facilitating correspondence between the text lines and spoken dialogues. Again, the 'record and compare' utility provided in the package allows the learner to record words and sentences in his own voice and compare them with the standard pronunciation available in the package.

Each lesson has the input of lesson objectives, structure exposure, narrative text, new vocabulary, word family, grammatical notes, structure practice, interactive exercises and evaluation tests. The medium of instruction is English.

Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Home Shri. I.D. Swami, Cabinet Secretary Shri. T.R. Prasad, Home Secretary Shri. Kamal Pandey, and Joint Secretary, Department of Official Language Shri. M.L. Gupta also spoke on the occasion.

C-DAC has pioneered the multilingual revolution through its path breaking Graphics and Intelligence Based Script Technology (GIST), which provides Indian Language support on computers. C-DAC's expertise also lies in developing a range of high-performance parallel computing products, popularly known as the PARAM series of supercomputers, generating skilled manpower resource in the IT sector, through its Advanced Computing Training School (ACTS). The National Multimedia Resource Centre (NMRC) of C-DAC has been set up to provide multimedia solutions and training. As part of its diversification in activities C-DAC has undertaken a number of turnkey contracts including solutions based on GIS, Remote Sensing, Process Control Systems, Data Warehousing, software packages in Telecom, Power, Financial and Health Care sectors, and Campus-wide Networking. Over the years, C-DAC's applications development programme has been growing rapidly and now deals with a wide range of applications including specific mission critical tasks.

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