The Centre for Endangered Language Studies (CELS) atIITPatna is doing a pioneering job for the conservation of endangered languages ofBiharand its adjoining regions.
Working under the department of humanities and social studies, the Centre has carried out a number of meaningful studies in a very short span of its establishment, the Covid-19 pandemic notwithstanding.
CELS head Sweta Sinha said that an annual project sponsored by the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) and awarded to the Centre to create a contextualized disaster mitigation framework rooted in the indigenous knowledge system of Bihar has been successfully completed and the findings of the study have already been published in premier research journals.