YOUTH ADVANCEMENT, TOURISM AND CULTURE
DEPARTMENT
(PMU)
THE TELUGU LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF ANDHRA
PRADESH (CONSTITUTION) RULES, 2018.
[G.O.Ms.No.40, Youth Advancement, Tourism and Culture (PMU), 10th July, 2018.]
N O T I F I C A T I O N
In exercise of the powers conferred under sections 6, 10 (1) (b) and 42 of
The Andhra Pradesh Tourism, Culture and Heritage Board Act, 2017 (A.P. Act No. 4
of 2017), the Government of Andhra Pradesh hereby, makes the following Rules.
PART-I
(1)
Short title, extent and commencement. -
(1)
These Rules may be called the Telugu Language Development Authority of
Andhra Pradesh (Constitution) Rules, 2018.
(2)
It extend to the whole of the State of Andhra Pradesh.
(3)
It shall come into force with effect from 18-07-2018 i.e. Date of Gazette
Publication.
2)
Definitions
1.
In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires, —
(i)
“Authority” means the Telugu Language Development Authority of
Andhra Pradesh established under section 6 of the Act;
(ii)
“Chairman” means the Chairman of the Authority;
(iii)
“Erstwhile Department” means Department of Official Language;
(iv)
“Fund” means the Telugu Language Development Fund established
under Rule- 8;
(v)
“Projects
and
Programmes”
means
the
Annual
Projects
Programmes approved by the Authority, for development and promotion
of Telugu Language in the State; and
2.
The words and expressions used but not defined in these rules shall have
same meanings assigned to them in the Act.
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PART-II
TELUGU LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
3)
Constitution of the Telugu Language Development Authority of Andhra Pradesh.
(1)
In accordance with the powers vested under section 6 of the Act, the
State Government hereby constitutes a body to be called the ‘Telugu
Language Development Authority of Andhra Pradesh’, herein after
called as the ‘Authority’ for the State, which shall be a body corporate
by the name aforesaid, having perpetual succession and a common
seal, with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property, both
movable and immovable and to contract and by the said name sue
and be sued.
(2)
The Authority shall consist of —
a. Chairman;
b. Secretaries to Government dealing with General Administration,
Law, Labour, Culture & Tourism and Education Departments.
c. Up to four experts having special knowledge or practical experience
in the fields of Telugu literature, administration and law as members.
d. Chief Executive Officer of Andhra Pradesh State Creativity and
Culture Commission;
e. Chief Executive Officer and Member-Secretary
(3)
The Chairman and Members shall be nominated by the Government
on the recommendations of a three (3) members search committee
appointed by the Government consisting of Members having special
knowledge or practical experience in the field of Telugu language, literature
and administration.
(4)
The composition and reconstitution of Authority resulting due to
vacancies/absence of its members and proceedings shall be as per
First Schedule of the Act.
(5)
Subject to the general superintendence and control of the Authority
the management of the affairs of the Authority shall vest in the Chief
Executive Officer.
(6)
The Authority shall make required regulations with approval of the
Board / Government and standing orders to achieve the object of the Act.
(7)
In case of a vacancy of Chairman, the Secretary / Principal Secretary / Special
Cheif Secretary to Government dealing with Tourism & Culture shall act the
Chairman of the Authority.
(8)
Subject to the direction and delegation of the powers by the Authority,
Chief Executive Officer may exercise any power or do any act or thing
which may be exercised or done by the Authority.
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4)
Appointment of Sectoral Committees — Under section 7 of the said Act, the
Authority is authorised to appoint the following Committees consisting of such
members as it thinks fit:-
1.
Committee on Telugu Official Language Implementation;
2.
Committee on Telugu Language Development with focus on Education;
3.
Committee on e-Telugu Development;
4.
Committee on Translations and Publications; and
5.
Committee on International Telugu Development
PART-III
FUNCTIONS OF THE AUTHORITY
5)
Functions of the Authority; —
1)
The functions of the Authority under section 11 shall be the following:-
(i)
General
(a) To prepare every year projects and programmes for the
development of Telugu Language and obtain approval
of Government with or without modifications;
(ii)
Official Language Implementation
(a) To identify the hurdles in the implementation of Telugu as the
official language and to take suitable measures to solve them;
(b) To convert all the forms used by citizens to access public
services into Telugu and create professionally designed forms;
(c) To convert all the registers, process flow charts, manuals
and publications into easy to understand Telugu in all public offices;
(d) To coordinate with High Court and other courts in the State to
deliver their judgements in Telugu;
(e) To organise training programmes, workshops, exhibitions
and seminars which facilitate the use of Telugu for public servants;
(f) To prescribe and review from time to time the syllabus and
system of Telugu examinations conducted for testing public servants.
(g) To ensure that the Regional Language, as being used in the
forms, display boards, notices and name plates in the
Central Government establishments such as Airports, Banks,
Post Offices and such other offices and undertakings which
have a public interface, is in accordance with the language
policy of the Central Government;
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(h) To take decisions on the matters of preparation, revision,
printing and distribution of reference books on administration,
to implement the same, to monitor the progress in this field,
and to suggest necessary measures;
(i)
To encourage that Government business right from preparation
of note file to introduction of bills in the State Legislature
should be carried out in Telugu;
(j)
To encourage that the correspondence in administration right
from Village Secretariat is done in Telugu;
(k)
To ensure that implementation of Telugu as Official Language
is reviewed periodically as a subject at all levels right from
divisional level to State level;
(l)
To prepare an action plan and implement to create a “word bank”
in Telugu to substitute technical, administrative and legal
terminology available in other languages;
(m) To develop and publish glossary of administrative terms in
Telugu for use by departments;
(n) To ensure name plates, boards, flexies, banners, and
other advertisement material are primarily written in Telugu
and to initiate necessary panel action against the defaulters; and
(o) To ensure that all boards of Government offices and foundation /
inauguration plaques are legibly written in Telugu and to initiate action
to punish the defaulters.
(iii) Telugu Language Development Education
(a) To take action to secure priority for, and promotion of Telugu
in the field of education and cultural activities;
(b) To examine the standards of Telugu text books and give
instructions to rectify the errors, if any;
(c) To verify the learning levels of students up to intermediate
or equivalent;
(d) To motivate students and parents, and convince them to opt for
Telugu during the first 12 years of schooling;
(e) To translate works, written or digital, across the world which
changed the course of mankind in the fields of philosophy,
science, mathematics, engineering, medicine, economics,
history, arts and such other fields;
(f)
To prescribe syllabus, prepare literature and digital content,
and organize Telugu teaching courses for non Telugu persons;
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(g) To ensure that Telugu lessons prescribed for students are of
proper standards both in content and language;
(h) To improve and/or publish lexicon relating to various
professions such as medicine, engineering, science, law,
philosophy and so on;
(i)
To identify all original Telugu words used by poets of different
periods in their literature and introduce them back into popular use;
(j)
To coordinate with Andhra Pradesh Creativity and Culture
Commission to propagate the classic nature, lyrical beauty and
uniqueness of Telugu Language;
(k)
To prepare action plans to motivate youth towards adoption of
Telugu Language by conducting seminars, workshops and
competitions;
(l)
To encourage research on Telugu Language, Culture and Heritage;
(m) To coordinate with Government of India institutions; and
(n) To conduct World Telugu Conference every two years and make
the Conference a Forum for discussing all aspects of Telugu
Language Culture and Heritage;
(iv)
e-Telugu Development
(a) To promote creation of digital content in Telugu in the fields of
philosophy, science, mathematics, engineering, medicine,
economics, architecture, history, arts and such other fields;
(b) To facilitate implementation of Telugu on the internet, and in
popular websites and information technology applications;
(c) To provide online courses teaching Telugu language;
(d) To publish all Telugu classics on the Authority website;
(e) To digitalise all inscriptions and palm leaf manuscripts and
publish on the Authority website;
(f) To introduce Unicode in all Government correspondences
and preserve all information in Unicode; and
(g) To coordinate with Information Technology (IT) companies
and facilitate availability of all popular IT tools in Telugu language;
(v)
Translation and Publication
(a)
To coordinate with all departments to take up translations of
glossaries, administrative terminology and other information of
departments to facilitate implementation of Telugu as official
language;
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(b)
To publish and preserve the dictionaries, lexicons and to
translate them along with other research books on Telugu
culture and heritage available in other languages;
(c)
To ensure that translations are done using simple terms
understandable to common man;
(d)
To formulate translation guidelines in order to ensure that official
correspondence is done in Telugu; and
(e)
To encourage and publish books and articles on the advantages
of using mother tongue as official language and medium
of instruction through stories, poems, plays etc.
(B) Promotion
(a)
To publish publicity material such as posters, handbills, user manuals, digital
content;
(b)
To create awareness among employees and public on use of mother tongue;
(c)
To facilitate implementation of Telugu in user manuals for various hardware
equipment manufactured in the State;
(d)
To facilitate communication, oral or written, in Telugu in the airlines, trains
and busses operating in the State; and
(e)
To facilitate creation of new and innovative Telugu fonts;
(C) International Telugu Development
a) To liaison with other State Governments to facilitate Telugu teaching
in their respective States Telugu minorities;
b) To liaison with Hindi speaking States to implement Telugu as third language in
their States;
c) To liaison with Official Language Commission of Government of India and
extend its jurisdiction to all Indian languages incorporated in eighth schedule
of the Constitution of India without confining to Hindi;
d) To protect Telugu language in the border mandals from invasion by other
languages of neighboring States by formulating special schemes/programs;
and
e) To liaison with other State Governments to sort out any academic or
administrative problem that may arise regarding Telugu language; and
(2) In addition to the functions of the Authority under sub rule (1), the Authority may
undertake such other functions as the Government may assign to the Authority
and in so doing the Authority shall be deemed to be fulfilling the purposes of the
Act and the provisions of the Act shall apply to the Authority in respect of such
functions.
(3) Nothing in this rule shall be construed as imposing on the Authority, directly or
indirectly, any form of duty or liability enforceable by proceedings before any court.
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PART IV
POWERS OF THE AUTHORITY
6) Powers of the Authority:- (1) Under Section 13 of the Act, the Authority may
exercise one or more of the following powers,
(a)
To issue directions to departments and review the action taken on
implementation of Telugu in a time bound manner duly considering the
technical, financial and capacity building constraints;
(b)
To seek and obtain information relating to implementation of Telugu from
any officer of the Government or Legislature or High Court and such officer
shall be bound to furnish the information sought by the Authority;
(c)
To advise the State Government regarding implementation of its projects
and programmes;
(d)
To record any violation or dereliction of duty and to advise the appointing
authority for imposing a penalty on any public servant;
(e)
To impose and collect penalties, as prescribed under the rules;
(f)
To prescribe and review syllabus and system of Telugu examinations
conducted for testing public servants;
(g)
To issue directions to Central Government establishments on use of Telugu
in areas having interface with public;
(h)
To review and protect the status of Telugu medium institutions and their
continuation;
(i)
To set up required offices at the State level and District level;
(j)
To issue directions on implementation of Telugu as first language up to
intermediate or equivalent education;
(k)
To verify the learning levels of students up to intermediate or equivalent;
(l)
To ensure teaching of Telugu Language as a subject in all the semesters
up to degree;
(m)
To ensure teaching of Telugu Language in all the technical courses like
Medicine, Engineering and Law;
(n)
To ensure teaching of Telugu Language as a subject in all English medium
institutions;
(o)
To ensure primary education is provided in all Government institutions in
Telugu medium; and
(p)
To co-ordinate with project works of centre for Telugu Classical Language
of Government of India.
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CHAPTER V
PROVISIONS RELATING TO STAFF
7) Appointment of staff— (1) No personnel shall be appointed through manpower
outsourcing agencies for carrying out services which can be procured through
service contracts such as housekeeping, security, hospitality and such other
services.
PART - VI
FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
8)
Establishment and administration of Telugu Language Development Fund—
a. There shall be established a fund to be called the Telugu Language
Development Fund, with a seed capital of Twenty Five Crore Rupees, which
shall, subject to the directions of the Government, be controlled and
administered by the Authority.
b. Except as otherwise directed by the Government all money credited to the
Fund shall be invested only in a single Scheduled bank.
c. A specified percentage out of tax collections specified by Government,
may be paid to the Fund;
d. Government Corporations are hereby authorized to give grants to the Fund
at their discretion, not exceeding fifteen percent of their surplus;
e. The private portion of the Fund shall be raised from the donations and
other conveyances including funds, materials, property, and services, by
gratuitous title;
f.
For the purposes of income tax and corporate tax, the Fund shall be treated
as that belonging to Government.
g. Chief Executive Officer shall be responsible for day to day administration
of the Fund.
9) Delegation of financial powers- Under section-26 of the Act, delegation of powers
of administrative sanction of all expenditure from the Fund for the Chief Executive
Officer shall be up to ten lakh rupees, subject to any revision by the Board/
Government from time to time.
PART-VII
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
10)
Offences and penalties.-
(1)
Any person who owns an enterprise does not cause his establishment to
display its name board in Telugu shall be punishable with a fine of up to
fifty thousand rupees, and in case the person continues to commit the
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same offence for two times shall in addition to the fine be punishable
with an imprisonment for a period not exceeding three (3) months;
(2)
Any head of Government Department or agency who being responsible
for preparation of foundation or inauguration plaques of Government
functions in Telugu as prescribed by the Government and does not do so
shall be punishable with a fine of up to ten thousand rupees;
(3)
Any head of Government Department or agency who does not use Telugu
official language for his correspondence between departments or with
public as prescribed by the Government shall be punishable with a fine of
up to five thousand rupees;
(4)
Any head of Government Department who does not review implementation
of Telugu as official language as prescribed by the Government shall be
punishable a fine of up to five thousand rupees;
(5)
Any public servant who does not use Telugu as official language for his
interaction with the public as prescribed by the Government, shall be
punishable with a fine of up to ten thousand rupees;
(6)
Any person who owning an educational institution does not implement
Telugu syllabus or Telugu as a medium of instruction as prescribed
by the Government shall be punishable with a fine of up to fifty thousand
rupees or to an imprisonment for a period not exceeding six (6) months.
11) Transitional provisions-The provisions set out in the Third Schedule of the Act
with respect to the transfer of assets, liabilities, functions and employees of the
erstwhile department shall have effect.
These Rules issue with the concurrence of Finance (FMU-GAD.II) Department
vide their U.O.No.37027/80/FMU-GAD.II/2017, Dated: 06.04.2018.
MUKESH KUMAR MEENA,
Secretary to Government.
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