Indian Sign Language News

Ranveer Singh has urged the authorities to declare Indian Sign Language (ISL) as the 23rd official language of India. He has also lent his support to screen his film ‘83’ in sign language.

Ranveer Singh urged the authorities to consider and declare ISL as the 23rd official language of India. He recently signed a petition aimed at furthering awareness of this cause.

As part of this MoU, educational print materials such as NCERT Textbooks, Teachers Handbook and other Supplementary materials and resources of Class I-XII of all subjects of both Hindi and English Medium will be converted into Indian Sign Language in Digital format. The signing of this MoU is a historic step as availability of NCERT textbooks in Indian Sign Language will ensure that deaf children can also now access educational resources in Indian Sign Language and it will be a useful and much-needed resource for dead students, teachers, parents and the deaf community. This will also ensure educational standardization of Indian Sign Language as mandated in the New Education Policy (NEP), 2020. This MoU will be signed in the virtual presence of Thaawarchand Gehlot, Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Union Minister for Education, Shakuntala Doley Gamlin, Secretary, DEPwD and Anita Karwal, Secretary (SE&L), Ministry of Education.

Ranveer has released Shwapon, a collaboration between SlowCheeta, Bengali folk artist Dipannita Acharya, and Mehfil-E-HipHop, sung by all four Inc Ink artists Kaam Bhaari, Spitfire, SlowCheeta and Devil The Rhymer to promote this awareness initiative in India. 

During International Day of Sign Languages, which is celebrated across the world on September 23 every year along with the International Week of the Deaf, Ranveer has planned several initiatives through his independent record label Inc Ink to raise more awareness on making Indian Sign Language (ISL) the 23rd official language of India.

Ranveer Singh's independent record label IncInk, which he has formed with Navzar Eranee, also released sign language music videos – the only record label to initiate this progressive step.