Modi eases language barrier at investors' summit

Ahmedabad, Jan 10: Industrialists and dignitaries attending the inauguration of Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors' Summit being held at the Science City on January 12-13 will be able to listen to the speech made in Gujarati, Hindi or English in their mother tongue.

It is for the first time in India that such a facility is being offered during the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit 2007 that the speech is at once translated simultaneously in three languages and as many as 300 persons can listen in three languages with the help of cordless device.

Those from countries like Japan, China and Singapore sometimes face diffuclties even to understand English language.

The state government has, therefore, made available interpreters during the inauguration ceremony of the summit. They will be able to listen to the speeches made in Gujarati, Hindi or English simultaneously in Chinese, Japanese, English or Hindi languages.

A soundproof cabin is being erected near the dais of the chief minister. These interpreters will listen to the speech from the dais and translate them into Chinese, Japanese, English or Hindi languages at once and present these translations through language distribution system. 300 persons will listen to the speech in the language of their choice, that is in Japanese, Chinese, English or Hindi simultaneously with the help of cordless device based on Vi-FI or infrared system.

At present only the Parliament House has the facility to listen to the translation of the speech at once; but the facility in the Parliament House proves an arrangement to listen to the translation in only one language and that too with the device connected with wire, while here in the Vibrant Gujarat Global Iinvestors Summit the spectators will themselves change the switch and listen to the speech in one out of three languages and that too with the help of cordless device.

Such an event is going to take place at the summit for the first time throughout the country.

Linguist Dr Hiralkumar Yagnik is holding this responsibility on behalf of the state government. Dr Yagnik holds PhD in linguistics and he is well-versed in 15 languages. He has the expertise on colloquial as well as pictorial languages.

Dr Yagnik said that permanent arrangement of interpreters would be made at the site of the summit in addition to inauguration ceremony of the summit so that the investors, industrialists or dignitaries arriving in Gujarat from different countries did not face any difficulties due to language problem.

UNI