Central Institute of Classical Tamil
The Centre of Excellence for Classical Tamil (CECT), established by the Government of India with a view to promoting the cause of Classical Tamil, has been functioning at the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, a branch of the Department of Higher Education, Language Bureau, Ministry of Human Resource Development. It is engaged in the task of developing Tamil through various programmes of its own. CECT was moved to chennai by the Mid of May 2008 and rechristianed as Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT). The chairman of the new institute is Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Kalaignar M.Karunanidhi. The Governing body for Classical Tamil institute (TLPB) was also changed as Aimperumkuzhu (5 Members) and Enperayam (8 Members) under two vice-chairman Prof.V.I.Subramoniam and Prof.V.C.KulandaiSwamy, the chairman for this governing body is Dr.Kalaignar.
The Institute is responsible for the Kural Peedam Award.
Projects
The following are the ten major projects of The Centre of Excellence for Classical Tamil (CECT):
- Definitive Editions of Ancient Tamil Works
- Translation of Ancient Tamil Works
- Historical Grammar of Tamil
- Antiquity of Tamil: An Inter-Disciplinary Research
- Synchronic And Diachronic Study of Tamil Dialects
- India As a Linguistic Area
- Digital Library For Ancient Tamil Studies
- Online Teaching of Classical Tamil
- Corpus Development For Classical Tamil Works
- Visual Episodes on Classical Tamil
Tamil Language Promotion Board (TLPB)
TLPB was now changed as Aimpermkuzhu and Enperayam The board was reconstituted.
Chairman
Prof. V.C. Kulandai Swamy
Members
Prof. M. Nannan
Dr. Silamboli Chellappan
Kavikko Dr. Abdul Rahman
Dr. Manavai Mustafa
Dr. Avvai Natarajan
Prof. Solomon Pappaiah
Kavinar Dr. Erode Thamizhanban
Perunkavikko Dr. V.M. Sethuraman
Prof. M.P. Balasubramaniyam
Dr. Iravatham Mahadevan
External links
- Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai
- Central Institute of Classical Tamil
- Centre of Excellence for Classical Tamil