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Garuda VII air exercise โ€˜great occasionโ€™ for building โ€˜common historyโ€™: French envoy to India

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Jodhpur: French Ambassador to India Emmanuel Lenain on Tuesday called India-France military exercise Garuda VII a โ€œgreat occasionโ€ to continue building a โ€œcommon historyโ€ between the two nations.
Speaking to ANI, Lenain at Jodhpur stated that the exercise is an occasion for the air forces of France and India to learn to operate together. Notably, the Indian Air Force (IAF) and French Air and Space Force (FASF) are participating in a bilateral exercise โ€˜Garuda VIlโ€™ at Jodhpur in Rajasthan. โ€œIt is a great occasion to continue to build our common history for forces to learn to how to operate together, to be more interoperable, to be able to conduct joint operations by training together,โ€ Lenain told ANI.
Expressing his views on the joint exercise, Lenain said they are โ€œvery happyโ€ to be welcomed in India. He called the bilateral exercise between Indian Air Force (IAF) and French Air and Space Force (FASF) a โ€œwonderful occasion.โ€
Lenain said that the French Air & Space Force chief had โ€œvery confidentโ€ and โ€œvery in-depth contactsโ€ in Delhi on Monday, November 7. He stressed that France wants more cooperation and more exercises with India and stressed that there is a โ€œlot of trustโ€ between the two nations. Lenain said that India and France have been โ€œpioneering togetherโ€ in air force exercises.

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โ€œThe Chief of Air Staff is visiting also. He is having some very confident and very in-depth contacts in Delhi yesterday. Obviously, we want to go further, we want more cooperation, more collaboration, more exercise, and more training together because there is a lot of trust between our two countries and between our two governments. We can build and redevelop some equipment also and be able to use them more efficiently,โ€ Lenain said.
Notably, the โ€˜Garuda VIIโ€™ exercise involves a number of combat aircraft including Rafale, Tejas, Jaguar, and Sukhoi-30s. It commenced on October 26 and will culminate on November 12.
French Air & Space Force chief Gen Stephane Mille expressed his views on the military exercise between the two nations. General Mille said, โ€œWeโ€™re here to fly together with Indian aircrew. Sometimes, with a simple act, we can do a lot. Doing this exercise, we are able to understand each other during the flights. Itโ€™s very important to be able to fly and operate together.โ€
Meanwhile, IAF Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari said, โ€œGaruda is one exercise that gives us this opportunity which exposes our pilots and crew to the best packages of the French Air & Space Force (FASF) and vice versa.โ€
Highlighting the importance of the Garuda exercise, Air Chief Marshal Chaudhari stated, โ€œWe have learnt how to carry forward our interoperability. French Air Force also flies Rafale, we also fly Rafale, but we fly many other aircraft along with Rafale. Itโ€™s important to learn how to interoperate with friendly nations.โ€

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MHA completes mother tongue survey project across India with field videography of 576 mother tongues

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New Delhi: Centre has successfully completed its Mother Tongue Survey of India (MTSI) project with field videography of 576 languages and dialects across the country, Ministry of Home Affairsโ€™ (MHA) Annual Report 2021-2022 said.
Currently, the report mentions, the video-graphed speech data of Mother Tongues are going to be uploaded on National Informatics Centre (NIC) server for archiving purposes. Organisations such as NIC and National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) are rendering their exemplary services in documenting and preserving the linguistic data of surveyed Mother Tongues in audio-video files, reads the report.
In order to preserve and analyze the original flavour of each โ€œindigenous Mother Tongueโ€, the report also states it has been planned to set up a webarchive at the National Informatics Centre (NIC).
โ€œFor this purpose, proper editing in arranging the linguistic data by the in-house linguists is under process,โ€ the report said.
Besides, the report said, the volume on Linguistic Survey of India (LSI) Jharkhand is finalized and LSI Himachal Pradesh is nearing completion. โ€œHowever, the field work of LSI Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh is going on.โ€
The LSI is a regular research activity in ORG&CCI since the 6th five year plan.
Detailing about the upcoming census, which is still on hold since Covid-19 pandemic fear affected people across the country, several new initiatives have been taken for facilitating smooth conduct of the mega exercise, including use of the advanced geospatial technology.
The pre-census mapping activities include the preparation and updation of maps showing administrative units of the states and UTs, districts, sub-districts, villages, towns and wards within towns to ensure proper coverage of the entire geographical area of the country, it said.
Further, the report said, efforts are being made for dissemination of Census results through web based interactive maps. โ€œPreparatory work in this direction has already been initiated.โ€

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Some of these initiatives include purchase of versions and re-modules of software for completing the Census mapping activities in a quick and efficient manner and all mapping manpower trained on using the latest software, the report said.
Jurisdictional changes that occurred in the country after Census 2011 till December 31, 2019 have been updated in the geo- referenced database and further updation is going on as the freezing date has been extended upto June 30, 2022.
More than six lakh maps (district, sub-district, village level) have been prepared and being uploaded in the in-house portal for census functionaries and the same will be further updated and finalised as per jurisdictional changes till June, 2022
For the first time, the House Listing Block (HLB) Mobile Mapping App for geo-referencing of all enumeration blocks of the coming census in the country has been introduced and necessary training on this has been imparted to national and master trainers.
Instructions manual on use of mapping app has been prepared in English, Hindi and regional languages, the report said.
The most important step after the enumeration exercise and data processing is the dissemination of the Census results for its use by Government Departments, Universities, Institutes of repute, scholars, students and other data users, it said.
With this objective, this office is implementing an elaborate data dissemination plan to keep the data users informed about the utility and releases of different datasets from Census, like population, SCs and STs, literates, workers and non-workers, slum data, age data and data on housing and household amenities and assets.

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