To promote the mother tongue Punjabi, Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan on Tuesday held a discussion with the MLAs, scholars, and language activists to implement the Punjabi language in the High Court and lower courts of the State in the light of the established laws.

The meeting discussed the matters related to promoting the mother-tongue Punjabi, providing detailed information about the issues to the legislators, and implementing Punjabi in the courts.

Sandhwan, presiding over the meeting, said that the Punjab Government was making constant efforts to give due respect to the mother tongue Punjabi, and the Government and private institutions have been urged to write Punjabi as a first language on their signage or boards by the International Mother Language Day on February 21.

“During the discussion, important ideas came out such as implementing Punjabi in the upper and lower courts under the established laws, to enact Library Act in the State, linking mother-tongue with employment, improving Punjabi language proficiency of the teachers, correctness of translation, implementation of Punjabi in private schools from the nursery level, use of Punjabi language by bureaucrats, and strengthening linguistic institutions,” said Sandhwan.

Among others, the meeting was attended by the state School Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains, Vidhan Sabha Deputy Speaker Jai Krishan Singh Rori, besides MLAs — Manjit Singh Bilaspur, Kulwant Singh Pandori, Mohammad Jamil-ur-Rehman, Karambir Singh Ghuman.