decided to offer professional courses in indian languages he lauded this decision and wrote articles in 33 vernacular newspapers in 24 indian languages highlighting the need for professional courses in indian languagesemphasising on the need for reconnecting indias innate strengths the vice president underscored the importance of agriculture in the national economy and praised indian farmers for achieving record food grain production despite the pandemiche visited several scientific institutions and apprised himself of new developments in research and developmentas part of his diplomatic engagements the vice president chaired the 19th meeting of the shanghai cooperation organisation sco council of heads of government which was held virtually in the national capitalhe also met the minister of foreign affairs of the kingdom of bahrain abdullatif bin rashid al zayani and the president of interparliamentary union ipu duarte pacheco at uparashtrapati nivasthe official channel of rajya sabha rstv touched new heights under the leadership of naidu with its youtube subscriber base increasing from five lakh to 59 lakh over the past four years the statement saidalso subsequent to a committee formed by chairman rajya sabha a new channel sansad tv is taking shape by merging rstv and lstv it said