Patna: A five-day national workshop to standardise Maithili equivalents of technical terms in political science began at the department of political science, Patna University, here on Tuesday. The workshop is being organised by Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT), under the department of higher education, Union ministry of education.The workshop focuses on standardising Maithili equivalents of technical terms included in the trilingual glossary of basic political science terminology in English, Hindi and Maithili. The programme is being organised under the guidance of CSTT chairperson Hitendra Kumar Mishra.Inaugurating the workshop on Tuesday, head of the department of political science, Seema Prasad, welcomed the subject experts and described the commission’s initiative as an important step towards strengthening Maithili as a language of higher education and academic discourse.CSTT assistant director Sahjad Ahmad Ansari explained the commission’s role and the objectives of the workshop. He emphasised the need to standardise technical terminology to ensure consistency, accuracy and wider acceptance in academic communication.Eight experts from political science, public administration and Maithili are deliberating on suitable Maithili equivalents of technical terms in the English-Hindi-Maithili glossary. The initiative aims to encourage higher education, research and academic writing in Maithili while developing an authentic and standardised terminology for the discipline.The participating experts include Seema Prasad, Keshkar Thakur, Sanjay Kumar, Rakesh Ranjan, Manzar Suleman, Jeevachh Ram, Rajiv Kumar and Putul Kumari.Ansari is supervising the proceedings on behalf of the commission. The workshop is expected to contribute to the systematic development of Maithili terminology and facilitate the use of the language in specialised academic fields, said Prasad.
