IGNOU MATS Project (MTTP 22): Translation Project Work with Viva-voce

IGNOU MATS Project: what MTTP 22 asks you to produce

The IGNOU MATS Project is MTTP 22, the 16-credit Project Work with Viva-voce in the second year of the MA (Translation Studies) programme of the School of Translation Studies and Training (SOTST). You translate a substantial work between English and Hindi, write a long critical introduction to it, and then defend both in a viva.

Choosing what to translate is the point where MATS learners who write to us feel most lost. Many say IGNOU gave them no class on how to plan a project file, so after the theory courses MTTP 22 looks like a blank page.

MATS material on this site, matched to your MTTP 22 step

This category is where MTTP 22 reference sets for the IGNOU MATS Project are listed, and any set in stock shows in the product grid above this text. When this page was built on 8 November 2026, the store’s other MATS listings were study guides for the MTT courses, solved guess papers and a handwritten assignment service, so the table starts from what a second-year MATS learner usually needs alongside the project.

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Three codes for one IGNOU MATS project course

Students searching for the IGNOU MATS Project meet three spellings of one course, and each official file prints its own. The July 2026 Common Prospectus uses MTTP 22, the Programme Guide and the programme page use MTT-022, and the eGyanKosh collection is titled MTTP-022. Every one of them gives the course 16 credits in the second year.

When a form asks for the course code, copy what your Samarth account shows for the course. The three spellings point to the same 16 credits in every file read for this page, and the MA translation studies project is the one compulsory course in the second year that carries a viva.

What the MATS Programme Guide fixes for MTT-022, and what it leaves open

The rules of the IGNOU MATS Project that are actually in print sit in one place: the MATS Programme Guide on ignou.ac.in. Its section on MTT-022 project work is short, and the table separates what it settles from what it does not mention.

For the open points, read the MTTP-022 project work guide on eGyanKosh, a 23-page Hindi file dated December 2015 that this page does not quote because it could not be opened for automated reading in November 2026, and write to the Programme Coordinator, Prof. Rajendra Prasad Pandey, SOTST (rajendrapandey@ignou.ac.in, 011-29571624, as printed in the July 2026 prospectus). The Programme Guide also prints an older programme fee of Rs 10,800 (Rs 5,400 a year); the July 2026 prospectus and the programme page give Rs 7,500 a year.

Which text can you translate for MTTP 22?

Your IGNOU MATS Project text has to be a major work in English or Hindi with literary, cultural, social or intellectual weight, and the Programme Guide allows either the whole work or a part of it. The extract you translate must run to 12,000 to 15,000 words, so a short story or a single essay will not stretch that far.

Students often ask us for the official MTTP 22 topic list so they can pick a title from it. In the MATS files read for this page there is none: the Programme Guide names a kind of work and leaves the choice of book to you and your project director.

IGNOU MATS project topics: why there is no printed list

A translation project has a text where other IGNOU projects have a research topic, so the shortlist is a list of books. Five checks, our own, sort a shortlist quickly:

• Length: the work, or a continuous part of it, gives you 12,000 to 15,000 words to translate.
• Direction: the original is in English or Hindi, the only pair the Programme Guide names.
• Weight: you can say in the critical introduction why the work matters in its source language and why it should exist in the target language.
• Rights: the copyright position is clear (next section).
• Earlier versions: you know whether a published translation already exists, because the critical introduction should mention it and your choices will be compared with it.

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Copyright: the MTT-021 question that comes back in MTTP 22

Copyright is examined in MTT-021 Translation Training, and the IGNOU MATS Project is where it becomes practical. The June 2022 MTT-021 paper asks students to describe the Copyright Act and the acquisition and assignment of copyright, and sets a short note on copyright-free texts; the June 2023 paper asks what copyright is and how the Berne Convention bears on it.

Under India’s Copyright Act, 1957, making a translation of a literary work is one of the rights of the copyright owner, and for a published literary work the term generally runs for the author’s lifetime plus sixty years, counted from the start of the next calendar year. This is general information, not legal advice. In practice that means choosing a work that is out of copyright, or one whose rights holder has agreed to the translation, and saying which in the critical introduction. Whether SOTST asks for proof of permission is not stated in the documents read for this page.

Kinds of source text, traced to the MATS courses you studied

A strong IGNOU MATS Project text usually sits close to a course you have already studied, because that course gives the critical introduction its vocabulary. The table is a planning aid: our suggestions, with no IGNOU list behind them.

Who can direct your MTT-022 project work?

For the IGNOU MATS Project the Programme Guide says only that the work is done under a project director approved by the University. It prints no qualification list, no approval form and no limit on how many students one director may take.

Most MATS learners who reach our desk have not seen any approval rule for an MTTP 22 project director before they ask someone to guide them. Since the Programme Guide states only that the University approves the director, get that rule from SOTST or the 2015 guide before the first meeting.

We also hear from MATS students who asked their study centre coordinator for an MTT-022 director and came away without a name. The Programme Guide does not say that a study centre allots one, so ask the Programme Coordinator which route your session follows.

Some learners then turn to a relative or a family friend who teaches Hindi or English. That works for MTTP 22 only when the person meets the University’s approval rule, so check the rule first and ask second.

Agree at the first meeting how the director will work with you: the director reads and comments, and the translation and the critical introduction stay yours.

IGNOU MATS project synopsis: if SOTST asks for a proposal first

An IGNOU MATS project synopsis, or proposal, is not described anywhere in the MATS Programme Guide, so follow whatever your session’s SOTST instructions or the 2015 guide ask for. On the IGNOU project courses we handle, a proposal names the work, says why it matters and states the method. For MTTP 22 the natural parts are the source text and its author, the extract and its word count, the copyright position, the direction of translation, why the work deserves a version in the target language, the methods and aids you plan to use, and a timetable. These parts are our suggestion; the form SOTST gives you overrides them.

On the IGNOU project courses we see, many proposals go out in the last week before a date. For MTTP 22 that leaves no room for a returned proposal before the translation has to begin.

Where a proposal form comes with the instructions, some learners leave it out of the envelope and others attach a form printed for a different IGNOU course. For MTTP 22, use only a form that names MATS or MTT-022.

Keep proof of sending: a postal receipt, a counter acknowledgement or a dated copy of the email. Learners who skip it have nothing to quote when they ask SOTST about an MTTP 22 proposal later.

How long can MTTP 22 approval take, and whom do you ask?

No approval period for the IGNOU MATS Project appears in the documents read for this page. The Programme Guide sends academic matters to the Director, School of Translation Studies and Training, Block 15C, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 110068, and the prospectus names the Programme Coordinator.

In our experience across IGNOU project courses, a proposal can take two to three months to come back. Plan the MTTP 22 calendar so a reply inside that window still leaves enough weeks for 12,000 to 15,000 words of translation.

Most students we speak to do not know whom to write to when a month or two passes in silence. For MATS the Programme Coordinator named in the July 2026 prospectus is the first address, with the Director of SOTST for academic matters.

We have seen a session run out while a student waited for an approval letter that did not arrive. If nothing reaches you about MTT-022 within your planned window, write again with your enrolment number before the cycle closes.

When approval comes back with changes

Comments on an IGNOU MATS Project proposal are instructions for the translation that follows, and the critical introduction is where you show that each one was handled.

Most approvals we see on IGNOU project courses arrive with correction or modification points, and an MTTP 22 approval is likely to be the same.

A frequent slip is to file the comments away and translate as first planned. Copy each MTT-022 comment into a checklist and tick it off in the translation or the introduction.

The correction we meet most often asks for an updated review of literature. On MTTP 22 the matching part is the reading behind your critical introduction, so add recent work on the author, the text and its earlier translations.

A 16-week MTTP 22 project plan for 12,000 to 15,000 source words

This is a planning aid for the IGNOU MATS Project; the files read for this page set no schedule. Sixteen weeks is our estimate for a learner who also has MTT-020, MTT-021, MEG 14 and MEG 15 in the same year.

Some IGNOU project files reach us far longer than their course allows, and long files do come back. For MTT-022, keep the extract within 12,000 to 15,000 words and the introduction within 8,000 to 10,000, the limits the Programme Guide prints.

When a director asks for several rounds of revision, a translation can slip by weeks. Keep two spare weeks inside the MTTP 22 plan for exactly that.

The critical introduction: 8,000 to 10,000 words that weigh as much as the translation

In the IGNOU MATS Project the critical introduction and the translation carry the same top marking line, 70 marks each in the Programme Guide’s list. The smaller lines tell you what the introduction should cover: the importance of the selected text in the source and target language, the nature of the text, the methods and aids used in translation, the cultural and technical aspects including issues of resistance, and the glossary, footnotes and bibliography.

The Programme Guide is not consistent about the language of the introduction: one sentence says it is written in the same language as the original text, another calls it the target language. Ask the Programme Coordinator which one applies before you write a word of it.

After approval, many students tell us they do not know what shape the report should take. For MTTP 22 the Programme Guide’s marking lines are the best map: give each line its own section of the introduction.

In many files we read, the review of literature cites works that do not appear in the bibliography. In an MTT-022 introduction, each translator, critic or theorist you quote belongs in the bibliography as well.

Many reports carry a dated literature review, and in our experience that tends to cost marks. For MTTP 22, bring the reading on your author and on translation theory up to recent years.

Machine translation, AI drafts and your own rendering

Machine translation is part of the MATS syllabus, which is one reason the IGNOU MATS Project tests your own rendering so closely. MTT-020 papers have asked for a short note on machine translation (December 2022) and for the development of machine translation in the West (June 2022). If you use a dictionary, a glossary or a software tool to check terms, describe it under methods and aids, which has its own marking line; the files read for this page say nothing either way about AI tools.

Many students leave the project so late that no time is left to do it themselves. A translation of 12,000 words or more cannot be squeezed into the last fortnight before an MTTP 22 date.

Some learners draft their proposal with ChatGPT or another AI tool before reading the MATS Programme Guide, and the plan then asks for things MTT-022 does not require, such as a survey and a sample size.

We also see AI-written or machine-translated text handed in as it came out of the tool. In MTTP 22 the translation is the largest single marking line, and the viva will question choices the student did not make.

Glossary, footnotes and bibliography: one marking line, three jobs

The IGNOU MATS Project gives glossary, footnotes and bibliography one shared line of 15 marks in the Programme Guide. A useful glossary lists the source term, the equivalent you chose and a one-line reason; footnotes carry the culture-bound items a reader of the target language would miss; the bibliography lists every work the introduction relies on.

In many reports the references follow no single pattern and do not match the sources the text relies on. Where MTT-022 sets no style in the files read, choose one format and use it for each entry.

Some students leave the appendix material out altogether. For MTTP 22 the glossary is that material, and it earns marks of its own.

Many learners lift passages from websites into the critical introduction without checking them for plagiarism. Run the MTTP 22 introduction through a similarity check and credit each borrowed line.

IGNOU MATS project report format: a page order built from the marking lines

The IGNOU MATS project report format is not printed in the Programme Guide, so the order below is our suggestion, built so that an examiner meets the marking lines in sequence. Switch to any order SOTST gives you.

Many students are unsure in what order the parts of an IGNOU report go. Because the MATS Programme Guide prints no page order for MTT-022, the list above follows its marking lines instead.

Some reports we see are uploaded without the director’s signature on the originality declaration. If your MTTP 22 file carries a director’s certificate or declaration, get it signed before you scan.

200 marks for MTT-022, and a sum that does not add up

The Programme Guide gives the IGNOU MATS Project 200 marks because it is a 16-credit course, and divides them as written 140 (70 percent) and viva voce 60 (30 percent). It then prints seven marking lines.

The seven lines add up to 200 and none is labelled viva. The first two lines make the written 140; the five smaller lines total 60, the same as the viva share, and the Programme Guide does not say whether they are the viva criteria or parts of the written mark. Prepare for both readings: write the introduction so each smaller line is visible on the page, and be ready to speak to each one in the viva.

IGNOU MATS project submission in December 2026: OPMS upload

IGNOU MATS project submission has no route in the Programme Guide, so the route comes from the University’s notice for each cycle. For the December 2026 term-end examination, news reports of October and November 2026 describe IGNOU’s Online Project Management System (OPMS), reached through the learner’s Samarth account, as the only route for project reports, with 30 November 2026 as the last date and reports sent by email not accepted.

Some students email a report instead of using the route their course set. For the December 2026 cycle, emailed reports were reported as not accepted, so the MTTP 22 file goes through OPMS.

Many learners are unsure how many copies to send, and where. For an MTTP 22 upload the answer is the file OPMS asks for; keep your own full copy, printed or digital, for the viva.

A common mix-up is whether a published last date covers the proposal or the report. The 30 November 2026 date reported for December 2026 is for the project report and the project fee; neither MATS file read for this page prints a proposal date.

Rs 500, not Rs 300: the MTTP 22 evaluation fee and the 30 November 2026 date

The evaluation fee for the IGNOU MATS Project is Rs 500. Section 1.17 of the July 2026 Common Prospectus charges Rs 300 for project work of up to 4 credits and Rs 500 above 4 credits, paid with the term-end examination form, and MTTP 22 carries 16 credits. For December 2026 the project fee was reported due by 30 November 2026 through Samarth, the same day as the upload. The prospectus adds that examination fees once paid are neither refundable nor adjustable.

Many students mix up the Rs 300 and Rs 500 project fees. MTTP 22 carries 16 credits, which places it in the Rs 500 slab of the July 2026 prospectus.

In our records, 70 to 80 percent of students become active only in the last month before a submission date, and with a November date most begin in October. For a MATS learner aiming at 30 November 2026, an October start leaves too few weeks for the MTTP 22 plan above.

Many students hold back because they expect IGNOU to push each last date back by a month. Nobody can know that in advance for MTTP 22, so plan to the date in force.

The online viva: a 10 to 15 minute presentation, then questions

The viva is built into the IGNOU MATS Project: the prospectus titles the course Project Work with Viva-voce, and the Programme Guide says the viva is held online, with a presentation of about 10 to 15 minutes before the question and answer session. A presentation of that length can cover why you chose the text, the method you followed, three passages that resisted translation and how you solved them, and two glossary decisions you would defend.

Many students do not know whether a viva applies to them. For MTTP 22 it does: the course title says Viva-voce, and the Programme Guide describes the online format.

Some students keep no proof of submission. Save the OPMS acknowledgement or a screenshot of the finished upload; it is the record you will quote if the MTTP 22 viva notice seems late.

Reading an IGNOU MATS project sample PDF without copying it

An IGNOU MATS project sample PDF is worth reading for its structure: how the introduction is divided, how long the glossary runs, how footnotes are numbered. The text inside it belongs to someone else, and any set sold on this site is study reference material, not for submission as your own work.

Files built from widely shared material, or from the same outside source, often end up with the same book and the same extract as other students’ work, and duplicated work is a common reason IGNOU projects come back. Choose an MTTP 22 extract that no sample you have seen already uses.

What MATS learners search about MTTP 22

First four moves for your IGNOU MATS Project

The IGNOU MATS Project rewards an early start more than anything else, because the translation alone runs to 12,000 words or more.

1. Download the MATS Programme Guide and the 2015 MTTP-022 guide from eGyanKosh, and read both before you choose a book.
2. Shortlist two texts and check each against the five checks and the copyright rule above.
3. Write to the Programme Coordinator about director approval and whether your session needs a proposal.
4. Block sixteen weeks in your calendar and count back from the date in force.

If you want comments on a draft you have written yourself, our customised project service handles that separately from this store.

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