Digital Urdu Dictionary Website to be inaugurated on Oct 15
The formal inauguration of the Urdu dictionary website would be held on October 15.
KARACHI (APP) - The digital Urdu dictionary website would be launched formally on October 15. This was announced by the Adviser to Prime Minister on National History, Literary Heritage and chairman Quaid-i-Azam Mazar Management Board, Irfan Siddiqui.
He was presiding over a meeting of the Urdu Dictionary Board here on Friday.
Talking to media he said that sometime ago the Board had decided to digitalize Urdu dictionary. With this website consisting of 22,000 pages with 264,000 words with meanings were digitalized. Several intellectuals had worked on this which was appreciable.
For the project, funds were already released and that it is nearing completion, he further pointed out. Some shortcomings were indicated to the company concerned which assured that these would be removed by the first week of October. The formal inauguration of the Urdu dictionary website would be held on October 15.
Irfan Siddiqui said that our plan is to introduce sound dictionary on internet.
The meeting decided that all those organization that are working on Urdu dictionary should hand over their work to Urdu
Dictionary Board. In this regard an agreement has been inked with Secretary of the Anjuman Tarrqi Urdu, Fatima Hassan,
Some 5,000 books in the library would also be digitalized, it was further stated.
