Kolkata, 25th April, 2023

Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about Shripati Tudu, a professor from West Bengal who has prepared a version of the Indian Constitution in the native 'Ol Chiki' script for the Santhali community. He appreciated Tudu's efforts and considered it an example of the 'Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat' spirit in the 89th episode of Mann ki Baat.

He said “There are many people in our country who are working towards strengthening the linguistic diversity of the country. One such friend Shripati Tudu ji hails from Purulia in West Bengal. Tudu ji is a professor of Santhali language at Sidho-Kaano-Birsa University, Purulia. He has prepared a version of the country’s Constitution in his native ‘Ol Chiki’ script for the Santhali community. Shripati Tudu ji asserts that our Constitution makes every citizen of our country aware of one’s rights and duties. Therefore, it is important for every citizen to be familiar with it. Therefore, he prepared a copy of the constitution in his own script for the Santhali community and offered it as a gift. I appreciate this thinking of Shripati ji and his efforts. This is a living example of the spirit of ‘Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat’.”

Sri Sripati Tudu is currently Assistant Professor at theInstitute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR),Kolkata, West Bengal which is a research institute underthe Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal.

Sri Tudu has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Santali at Sidho Kanho Birsha University, West Bengal since 2016 and prior to that he worked asan Assistant Professor at Nayagram Pandit Raghunath Murmu Government College, Jhargram, West Bengal.

One of the biggest achievements of Sripati Tuduhas been his translation of the Indian Constitution in the Santali language, a major feat which he accomplished for the first time in India as no one before him translated the Indian rule book in the Santali language. This major achievement of Sri Tudu has been widely hailed by the mainstream media and by the academic circle at large.

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