Promoting Urdu Language Through NCPUL The Government of India is promoting Urdu language through National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL), an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, by administering various activities to protect, preserve and promote scholarship and literature in Urdu viz. financial assistance to Urdu writers/scholars for publication of manuscripts, purchase of books/journals/magazines, financial assistance to hold seminar/lecture-series, organization of Urdu book fairs, Computer Applications, Business Accounting & Multilingual DTP Course, Calligraphy and Graphic design centres, Urdu Correspondence Course through accredited study centres and Urdu Online Learning Programme. Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad, a Central University, extends all the support to the respective State Governments for sanction of scholarship for Under Graduate and Post Graduate programmes. Also University Grants Commission fellowship is granted to M.Phil and Ph.D courses. This information was given by the Union Human Resource Development Minister, Smt. Smriti Irani in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha question.
