For the first time, the GHMC council meeting on Saturday will have a simultaneous language interpretation system where speeches delivered in Urdu will be translated into Telugu and vice-versa.
He realised that some members were not able to follow speeches made in Urdu or Telugu and even English. Officials too were having a tough time as there are demands to answer in the same language in which the question has been asked. And not all officials are polyglots either. More.
A wireless language conversion system is being tried out on a trial basis pending the setting up of a full-fledged translation system at a cost of Rs.1.08 crore for which the government has accorded administrative sanction a few days ago.
The system which the municipal corporation will install, is wired technology ostensibly for greater voice clarity and it could take some more time for it to be in place. The need for translators was initiated by Mayor Majid Hussain after he took over and on presiding his first council meeting earlier this year.
See: The Hindu
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