Commissioner Police, DC Ludhiana and VC PAU launch pictorial work dedicated to International Mother Language Day 2023 at PAU

Ludhiana, February 21, 2023: To mark significance of International Mother Language Day 2023 a special Documentary film portraying the significance of "Mother Language" was launched by Commissioner Police Ludhiana Mandeep Singh Sidhu, IPS,  Vice Chancellor PAU Dr. Satbir Singh Gosal and Deputy Commissioner Ludhiana Surabhi Malik, IAS  prepared by Punjab’s eminent Author and Nature Artist Harpreet Sandhu today during the event held in Ludhiana.

Chief guest of the event Commissioner Police Ludhiana Mandeep Singh Sidhu, IPS said that the International Mother Language Day event organized today in PAU with special preview of short Documentary film and Pictorial work initiated by Nature Artist Harpreet Sandhu aims towards educating the society and students towards adopting Mother language, preserving cultural heritage, which will play an important role to keep new generation deep rooted to the community.

Deputy Commissioner Ludhiana Surabhi Malik, IAS stressed upon the need of implementing Mother Language Punjabi and its importance to promote traditional values within the society and applauded the innovative Pictorial work initiated by Nature Artist Harpreet Sandhu to promote the Mother Language Day  

Vice Chancellor PAU Dr. Satbir Singh Gosal stated that we all collectively need to promote our Mother Language Punjabi, enabling to connect the youth towards their traditional Mother Language. As we all witness round the globe in developed nations the Mother language is the top priority within the government functionary and amongst the natives thus we must learn different languages but need to give top priority to our Mother language and applauded the dedicated efforts of Nature Artist Harpreet Sandhu for compiling an educative Documentary film as well as pictorial work depicting the importance of Punjabi language through Portraits.  

To further promote Mother Language, special name boards of the officers of PAU and Police officials printed in Punjabi language were presented to the respective officials by Commissioner Police Ludhiana Mandeep Singh Sidhu, IPS along with Vice Chancellor Dr. Satbir Singh Gosal.

Nature Artist, Director of the Documentary film Harpreet Sandhu said he has dedicated the Documentary film to promote the glory of Punjabi language keeping in view the innovative words narrated by Nelson Mandela, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language that goes in his heart.”

The event was graced by prominent personalities of Ludhiana including Dr. Inderjit Singh (Vice Chancellor GADVASU), Parneet Sachdev, IRS (Principal Chief Commissioner Income Tax), Hardeep Batra, IRS (Commissioner Central GST Audit), Rajinder Gupta (Trident Industries), Rahul Chabba, PCS (ADC Ludhiana), Dr. Shammi Kapoor (Registrar PAU),   Dr. Manav Inder Singh Gill (Dean College of Horticulture & Forestry PAU) and other officials of PAU