Local languages can boost India's GDP, says Smriti Irani

After terming the study of German language 'unconstitutional', Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani has now stressed that local languages can also help in the growth of the country's GDP. 

Addressing a conference on education at the World Hindu Congress, Irani quoted a report by a multinational software company which claimed that when reading, writing and comprehension is done in local languages, the country's GDP rises. On the recent controversy surrounding replacing Sanskrit as the third language instead of German in Kendriya Vidyalaya schools, she said, "Whenever I talk about history, they (the press) makes headlines. Everything is not bad about history. Ancient India had a great scientific mind and rich knowledge. We need to find how to do its PR." 

She also suggested that scientific terminology should be translated in native Indian languages.