Consider the following statements :
- 1.21st February is declared to be the International Mother Language Day by UNICEF.
- 2.The demand that Bangla has to be one of the national languages was raised in the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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Answer: B. Statement 1 is wrong: International Mother Language Day (21 February) was proclaimed by UNESCO in 1999, not UNICEF. Statement 2 is correct: in 1948 Dhirendranath Datta demanded in Pakistan's Constituent Assembly that Bangla be made a state language. So only 2.
Watch for: UNESCO and UNICEF are easy to mix up; culture and language fall under UNESCO.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Wrong because UNESCO, not UNICEF, declared the day.
- C. Wrong because statement 1 is false.
- D. Wrong because statement 2 is correct.
Source to check: UNESCO website, International Mother Language Day
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