<span style="color: #222222;">Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu today called for protecting and promoting various Indian languages through the use of mother tongue in different fields from education to administration.<br />'' </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Inaugurating a webinar Mr. Naidu stressed the need for giving a special thrust to the respective official language by every State Government.<br />'' </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Observing that language was the lifeline of a civilization, he said it denotes the identity, culture and traditions of the people. Mr Naidu said language plays an important role in preserving music, dance, customs, festivals, traditional knowledge and heritage.</span><br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">He said language would gain popularity only through widespread usage. Mr Naidu said it was a fallacy to think that progress could be achieved only if education was pursued in English.<br />'' </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He highlighted that Research has shown that those who are proficient in their mother tongue can learn other languages with equal ease.</span><br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Mr Naidu said that it was also not correct to think that modern research could be conducted only if one was proficient in English.</span><br />''<br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He gave example that about 90 per cent of the top 40-50 countries in the Global Innovation Index are those in which education was imparted in their respective mother tongues.</span>