Dubai, Jul 13: Indian Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas M. Veerappa Moily recently paid a visit to India Club, Dubai, for a dinner meet hosted by Indian Ambassador for UAE, M.K. Lokesh along with Chairman of India Club Dr. Ram Buxani.
Mr Moily was returning from his Iraq business tour along with his delegation from Govt. of India, including Rajive Kumar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Prabhat Kumar, Joint Secretary (Energy Security), Ministry of External Affairs, B.C. Tripathi, CMB, GAIL and Sanjeev Kumar, PS to Dr. Veerappa Moily.
Speaking on the occasion Mr Moily briefed about his current tour finding solutions to the Petroleum needs of India and his meetings in Iraq and Khazagasthan for the requirements which he said was fruitful.
He said that India has got plenty of natural resources including oil and natural gas but the process of getting out the crude is still a slow process. However, he said he as the man in charge of this have planned a well written strategy goal to accomplish this by 2018 whereby India will be self sufficient and will not require to import any Crude Oil from external sources.
Bharat Chachara, General Manager of India Club, Dubai welcomed the guests comprising of various well known businessmen of UAE including Padmashree Dr. B.R. Shetty of NMC Group, Sanjay Verma, Counsel General of India in Dubai, Herman Lewis of Radio Spice 105.4 FM, Community leaders of Karnataka to include Sarvotham Shetty, President of Abu Dhabi Karnataka Sangha, Satish Poojary, President of Karnataka Sangha Sharjah, Harish Sherigar, President of Devadiga Sangha, Shodhan Prasad, Convener of Nama Tuluver UAE, Lokesh V. Puthran, President of Mogaveers UAE, Prakash Rao Payyar, President of Dhwani Prathistana and many other invitees from various organizations.
Chairman of India Club, Ram Buxani welcomed Dr. Moily and introduced him to the audience.
Dr. B.R. Shetty along with Tuluvas representation presented a memorandum addressed to the minister to request the Parliament to include Tulu language in the eighth schedule of constitution of India.
The constitution of India is not rigid and it has no fixed number of languages to be included in the 8th Schedule. Many languages have been included in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution after India's independence. Many languages were found neither numerically stronger nor more grammatically richer than Tulu. Assamese (approx 13,168,484), Sindhi (approx 2,535,485), Nepali (approx 2,871,749), Konkani (approx 2,489,015), Manipuri (approx 1,466,705), Kashmiri (approx 5,527,698), Sanskrit (approx 49,800) many of them have lesser population than Tulu speaking population which comprises of approx 5,000,000 but sad and unfortunately Tulu has not been included in the 8th Schedule. Tulu being one of the oldest Dravidian languages needs to be considered to be in the 8th Schedule of the world’s largest democratic Indian constitution and the Minister promised to present this in the next Parliament session.
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