Amritsar4 June : Amritsar Vikas Manch has demanded a Portal in Punjabi on the GOI site Press Information Bureau. In a letter to the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prof. Mohan Singh the Manch Patron stated that one is disappointed to observe that whereas languages like Bangla (KolKata), Malayalam (Thiruvananthapuran), Tamil (Chinnai), Telgu (Hyderabad), Kannada (Bangalore), Gujrati (Ahmedabad) etc. besides Hindi and English are adequately fed on this portal, Punjabi does not find a place on this site although it is a constitutionally recognized language of the country and going by the numbers of users ranks 7th in the world.

He has reminded the Prime Minister that it is his own mother tongue and requested him that before it acquires the dimensions of another grouse of the lovers of Punjabi language and culture. Prof. Mohan Singh has requested him to look in to the matter and make the site accessible through Punjabi (Amritsar) too, Amritsar because Chandigarh being the capital of Punjab and Haryana both, would confuse the visitor.

Incidentally the Press Information Bureau’s Udru portal was last updated on 6 March 2007