new delhi the delhi government has decided to set up academies of 15 languages including foreign ones to promote art and culture the proposal was approved by the delhi cabinet on tuesday announcing the decision in the house deputy chief minister manish sisodia said the city is home to a large number of people who speak different languages and bring the culture of their states here the government therefore has decided to establish the academies of marathi malayalam gujarati bengali pali and prakriti kumaonigarhwali and jaunsari marwari kashmiri assamese haryanvi oriya kannada and telugu it would also establish a separate academy for international languagesa lot of people especially the youth read literature and is interested in the art and culture of foreign region and languages like english said sisodiathe government said the new academies would be set up in lines with the existing ones for hindi urdu punjabi sanskrit sindhi and maithilibhojpuri apart from senior officers each academy would have language experts artists litterateurs and translators on boardofficials said rs 36 crore had been earmarked separately in the budget this year for implementing a number of new programmes including the academies