: Making headlines: A news site in J&K is putting out daily bulletins in lesser-known languages #IndiaNEWS In January 2021, Anzer Ayoob began producing news in Sarazi and Bhaderwahi – the two main

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Making headlines: A news site in J&K is putting out daily bulletins in lesser-known languages #IndiaNEWS
In January 2021, Anzer Ayoob began producing news in Sarazi and Bhaderwahi – the two main local languages of the Chenab valley in Jammu’s Doda district. The 23-year-old is the editor-in-chief of a multimedia news website called The Chenab Times.His idea is simple. Every day, his team uploads a round-up of the major headlines of the day in a video posted on Youtube. The first section of the video is in Urdu. The same news headlines are repeated in Sarazi and Bhaderwahi. “Ours is the only media outlet which is broadcasting news to the people in their local language,� said Ayoob. In September 2020, three months before Ayoob started his broadcast in Sarazi and Bhaderwahi, the central government introduced the Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Bill in Parliament. Apart from English and Urdu, the bill proposed to make Hindi, Kashmiri and Dogri the official languages of the Union Territory. Other communities in the region – those which speak Gojri, Pahadi and Punjabi, for example – had fumed over their exclusion. The bill was also criticised for imposing Hindi in a region where it is not spoken, and had led to concerns over the marginalisation of Urdu. It was passed by Parliament and notified by the end of September. Ayoob’s broadcast was partly...Read more

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