Prime Minister Hasina honours Dr. Mahendra Mishra with the International Mother Language Award in Dhaka

Prime Minister Hasina honours Dr. Mahendra Mishra with the International Mother Language Award in Dhaka

• Indian educationist and social worker for the promotion of indigenous languages in Odisha Dr. Mahendra Kumr Mishra was conferred the International Mother Language Award by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Tuesday. Dr. Mishra is the first India to receive this award. Dr. Mishra has worked over three decades on the language, culture  and education of the marginalised languages of Odisha.
• The award instituted in 2021 by UNESCO is given in recognition of the extraordinary contribution to the preservation, revitalization and development of mother languages.
• Prime Minister Hasina conferred the two national awards and two international awards to four recipients in Dhaka. Bangladeshi nationals Habibur Rahman and Ranjit Singha were given the national awards, while Mahendra Kumar Mishra and Mother Language Lovers of World Society, Vancouver, Canada were conferred with the international awards.

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Published date : 22 Feb 2023 05:42PM