The Central Institute of Indian Languages was set up on the 17th July 1969 with a view to assist and co-ordinate the development of Indian Languages. The Institute is charged with the responsibility of serving as a nucleus to bring together all the research and literary output from the various linguistic streams to a common head and narrow the gap between the basic research and developmental research in the field of languages and linguistics in India.

The Central institute of Indian Languages also runs seven Regional Centres in the various linguistic regions of the country to help and meet the demand for trained teachers to implement the three-language formula and thereby provides assurance to linguistic minorities.

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