Mathrubhasha Divas at Poornaprajna Institute of Management

The Poornaprajna Institute of Management, Udupi celebrated “Mathrubhasha Divas”. The Literary Club of the institute organised the function. The Centre has asked all the educational institutions to celebrate February 21 as “Mathrubhasha Divas” by organising day-long activities in Indian languages. The PIM theme centred around my elocution competition on my home village, and more than twenty students participated in the elocution competition.

The contestants spoke on the topic in their respective mother tongue. More than 25 contestants both from I and II MBA spoke about their home towns which included even from states like Maharashtra, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. The mother tongue of the contestants included Konkani, Kannada, Tulu, Byari, Urdu and Hindi

The results of the competition are as under:

I Place: Pavanraj L. Shetty, II MBA

II Place: Shubhanga M., II MBA

Consolation Prizes

1. Veena(Tulu) II MBA

2. Tina Caroline Dsouza (Konkani) I MBA

The objective behind celebrating Mathrubhasha Day included sensitising of students about the need for greater use of mother tongue and other Indian languages. It also aims at highlighting the need to impar among students the communication skills and proficiency in the mother tongue and other Indian languages, especially among English medium students. Mr. Vinay Udupa and Miss. Suparna Coordinated the programme. Faculty members Mr. Shivanand M. Bhandarkar and Mr. Joe Ashwin Correa were the judges for the competition.

Dr. Naveen Kumar, Associate Professor and Staff Advisor of Literary Club of PIM directed the programme and Dr. Bharath, Director, Dr. Sureshramana Mayya, Dean, and all the faculty members and all the students of the Institute were present on this occasion.

The following students participated in the elocution competition using Mathrubhasha: (Click the name of the respective student to here their Mathrubhasha Speech attempts)