Section 9 of Mizo Language Development Board Act 2022 — Powers duties of the Board.-

The Board shall have the following powers and functions: (a) to work as an authority on the preservation, development and enrichment of Mizo Language; (b) to publish books, journals and news letters on itself or through its agency;(c) to award outstanding works on poetry, drama, novel and other creative works;(d) to appoint experts, on payment of honorarium, to examine and comment upon a work assigned to them for the purpose and reason the Board may like to identify or notify; (e) to hold festival of letters and music, to sponsor and organize seminars, symposium, debate, translation works on its own or through an agency or on joint basis at the headquarters or at other places where the Board deems it suitable and beneficial; (f) to appoint and depute man of letters, prospective writers or a study team in and outside the country for a specific (or definite) purpose and time which the Board may deem fit; (g) to sponsor project works like standardizing the sound system of the Mizo language by assigning alphabet to a particular sound or modifying the orthographic system aided by tonal marks, to modify and reform mode of writing and punctuation; (h) to undertake research works helpful for the growth and development of Mizo language, literature and culture by producing Mizo encyclopedia, standard dictionary, descriptive grammar of Mizo tongue with scientific description of the language and such other related works;(i) to establish a specialized library of language and literature equipped with modern technique of audio and visual media for recording sound system and the movement of lips and tongue and such other necessary works; (j) to assist needy writers on its own or through an appropriate agency in fulfillment of the objectives of the Board; (k) to set up different committees or sub-committees and cells for publication, research and documentation, grammar and codifying, copyright and censorship, translation etc.