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IIT Jammu honours tribal researcher Dr Javed Rahi

| @indiablooms | Oct 28, 2022, at 11:06 pm

Jammu: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jammu has conferred  an award on eminent tribal researcher Dr. Javed Rahi for his contribution in developing language, literature, and culture of the Gujjar Bakarwal tribes within Jammu and Kashmir.

In this regard, a function was held at IIT Jammu where Director IIT Prof. Manoj Singh Gaur presented the momento in the presence of Dr. Colin Kaur and other faculty members headed by Gujjar, Bakarwal under the banner of IIT Jammu. Along with this, an important project for the conservation of mace culture was worked on, reports ANI.

Dr. Javed Rahi, who is also the editor of the Gujri department at the Cultural Academy, has written a dozen books and compiled five Gujri dictionaries. He has also compiled a Gujri dictionary containing more than 70,000 words with meanings. As Cultural Academy Editor, he has edited more than 300 books.

Under his chairmanship, the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education also prepared the syllabus of the Gujri subject from class I to class VIII.

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