The World
Punjabi Congress hereby announces the following Charter of
Demands and hope that the Government of Punjab will accede it
and implement it by January 15,2006.
1)
Land for the establishment of
Punjabi
University
by WPC be provided immediately so that it could be started by
the stipulated date i.e 31st of March, 2006. WPC
suggests that out of 6 kanal of land earmarked for the
Institute of Punjab language and Culture at Cultural Complex,
Qaddafi stadium, 4 Kanals should be earmarked for Punjabi
University. Institute of Punjab language and Culture may be a
part of
Punjabi
University.
WPC also urges the Punjab Chief Minister to grant sufficient
funds to WPC for renting a building for establishing and
starting Punjabi University till the construction of its
building at Qaddafi Stadium Cultural Complex site.
2) Ten thousand MA. Punjabi degree holders should be
provided with jobs as promised by Punjab CM. during the World
Punjabi Conference in 2004 in
Lahore.
3) Bill in the
Punjab
assembly by MPA to introduce Punjabi as medium of
instructions should not be staggered by the Government as has
been reported to WPC.
4 Punjab Government should wholeheartedly support
the language bill in the National Assembly by MNA from sindh
asking for declaring all languages as National Languages of
Pakistan which has been an avowed stand of WPC since 1986 and
enshrined in all its conferences Declarations.
5)
University
of Education is not starting MA, Punjabi classes on the
pretext that Punjab Government is not giving funds despite the
fact that more than 20 students are desirous of enrolment.
University of Education says that Punjab Education Minister
has not fulfilled his promise of doling out five laks of
rupees. This may be mentioned here that the said University
has already started urdu classes with the strength of 20
students. CM,
Punjab
should therefore instruct the University to start MA Punjabi
classes forthwith
6) Provincial information Ministry as well as Central
Ministry harbors a noticeable prejudice against Punjabi
dailies and journals. They should be asked to issue
advertisements at par with English and Urdu dailies.
7) Allocation to Punjabi literary and cultural
organisations by Provincial Government is peanuts thus
shameful. CM.Punjab should issue orders for the enhancement of
financial assistance to these Punjabi institutions.
8) As resolved in WPC’s 12th International
Conference in April in Lahore followed by Waris Shah
international Conference in July, 05, some important roads
should be named after the names of Sufi Poet like Baba Farid,
Shah Hussain, Bullhe Shah, Waris Shah, Sultan Bahu,Khwaja
Farid and Mian Mohammad Bakhsh from Punjab and Latif Bhatai,
Sachal Sarmast, Rehman Baba, Khushhal Khan Khatak, Mast
Tawakalli and Jam Dunak from Sindh, NWFP,
Baluchistan:respectively. This will promote much needed
National Integration. Bhaghat Singhs, Monument should also be
ereeted in ShadMan Lahore before his death anniversary on
March 23, 06. CM Punjab may please issue requisite directive
to respective departments for compliance
9) WPC
feels that for the implementation of these targets, the Chief
Minister of Punjab, Ch Pervaiz Elahi, who, we understand, is
quite serious for the development of Punjabi Language and
Culture, has to take brave, solid and immediate decisions
overriding the machinations, chicaneries and conspiracies of
concerned Punjabi bureaucracy who has regrettably monopolized
the literary and cultural institutions in Punjab therefore
undermining the ‘Parha Likhe Punjab’ concept which has to
drive sustenance from adherence to the promotion of Punjabi
cultural and linguistic ethos.
10) All
literary and cultural bodies in
Punjab
should be retrieved from Babus and handed over to
writers,/poets,/artists/ intellectuals.
WE
HEREBY ANNOUNCE WPC
WEBSITE:-
www.worldpunjabicongress.org
Over one
lakh Punjabi lovers have visited our website during the last 2
months which his quite phenomenal.
