new Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English and not to local languages.
Presiding over the 37th meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Official Language, Shah said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided that the medium of running the government is the official language and this will definitely increase the importance of Hindi. home Ministry.
He told the members that now 70 percent agenda of the cabinet has been prepared in Hindi.
Shah said that the time has come to make Hindi, the official language, an important part of the unity of the country.
He said that Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English and not to the local languages.
He said that unless Hindi is made flexible by accepting words from other local languages, it will not be promoted.
The home minister said that when citizens of states, who speak different languages, communicate with each other, it should be in the “language of India”, the statement said.
Shah emphasized on three main points. Firstly, the Committee is requested to convene a meeting in July for the implementation of the recommendations made in Volume 1 to 11 of its Report.
Shah said that the Secretary of the Official Language Committee should inform the members about the implementation of the section wise report in that meeting.
Under the second point, he stressed the need to give elementary knowledge of Hindi to the students up to class 9 and pay more attention to the Hindi teaching examinations.
Under the third point, the Home Minister suggested the Hindi dictionary to be revised and republished, the statement said.
On this occasion, Shah unanimously approved the sending of the 11th section of the report of the committee to the President.
He said that the speed at which the present Official Language Committee was working was rarely seen before.
The Home Minister said that sending three reports to the President in the same tenure of the committee is a joint achievement of all.
He said that an Implementation Committee should be constituted to review the progress of implementation of the recommendations of Section 11 of the Official Language Committee report after a meeting with all the concerned Secretaries.
He said that 22,000 Hindi teachers have been recruited in eight northeastern states.
Also, nine tribal communities of the Northeast have changed the scripts of their dialects to Devanagari.
Apart from this, all the eight states of the Northeast have agreed to make Hindi compulsory in schools up to class 10th.
Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra and Nisith Pramanik, Vice-Chairman of Official Language Parliamentary Committee Bhartrihari Mahtab and other members of the committee were present in the meeting.