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Sindhi Language Authority

Sindhi Language Authority
Native name
سنڌي ٻوليءَ جو با اختيار ادارو
Autonomous Institute
Founded 1992
Founder Dr. Nabi Bux Khan Baloch
Headquarters N-5, National Highway,, Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan
Area served
Standardization and promotion of Sindhi language
Key people
Dr. Abdul Ghafoor Memon (Chairman)
Products Books, Research, Applications
Owner Government of Sindh
Number of employees
97
Website http://www.sindhila.org

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Sindhi Language Authority (SLA) (Sindhi: سنڌي ٻولي جو بااختيار ادارو‎) is an autonomous body under the administrative control of the Culture Tourism and Antiquities Department of the Government of Sindh province in Pakistan. SLA was established under the act Use of Sindhi Language Act 1972, and the Teaching, Promotion and Use of Sindhi Language (Amendment) Act, 1990 of Government of Sindh Provincial Assembly.

There is a Board of Governors to frame the policies for achieving the aims and objectives of authority and ensure their implementation. First Board of Governors was constituted under the chairmanship of renowned scholar and writer Dr. Nabi Bux Khan Baloch.

Since the establishment of the Sindhi Language Authority, different scholars and writers were appointed as its chairman, who have contributed to the development and promotion of the Sindhi language. The present chairman is Dr. Abdul Ghafoor Memon.

SLA considers ways and means for the promotion, teaching and use of Sindhi. Moreover, it maintains and reinforce the status of the Sindhi language at all levels in the official and semi-official records. SLA also ensures the correct use of Sindhi language in official records, manuals, publications, text books, newspapers, television and radio, periodic publications and other permanent documents.

Sindhi Language Authority’s organizational structure consists of seven sections for achieving its objectives which are: Publication & Research Section which deals all kinds of books publication, research journals and magazines, Program Sections which arranges day to day planned programs, dramas linguistic seminars and symposiums, Encyclopedia Sindhiana which has vital team of researchers who collects data from all over the Sindh and compile it in alphabetically order and publish it in series of the Encyclopedia, Dictionary Section deals the etymology and compilation of the Sindhi Language thesaurus, Language Development Project section (Planning & development) arranges the helping seminars and add-on sittings with Literary and academics departments under the umbrella of Government of Sindh for development & implementing Sindhi Language in institutions, Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo Audio & Video Studio where multimedia programs, interviews and tradition folk literary people of Sindh shares their creative skills poetry and Sindhi Folk wisdom and Abdul-Majid Bhurgri Institute of Sindhi Computing develops web portals of Sindhi Literature & Sindhi programming of digitization in Sindhi Computing.


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