World Hindi Day: If you are on the internet today, you must have come across posts dedicated to World Hindi Day or World Hindi Day. However, there are many who are confusing it as Hindi Diwas or Hindi Diwas which is celebrated on 14th September. Find out how the two differ and what is the significance of each of these days.
World Hindi Day
World Hindi Day (विश्व हिंदी दिवस) is celebrated every year on 10 January. It aims to create awareness and promote Hindi language across the world. On this day, India’s embassies abroad specially celebrate this day with programs and lectures in Hindi in government offices.
History of World Hindi Day
Some reports claim, the first World Hindi Conference was held in Nagpur on January 10, 1974 and since then this date is celebrated as ‘World Hindi Day’. Also, the first World Hindi Conference was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the year 1975, so it became an important day. The first World Hindi Day was celebrated in 2006 by former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh. Then he announced that January 10 would be celebrated as World Hindi Day every year.
What is Hindi Divas? How is Hindi Diwas different from World Hindi Day?
Hindi Diwas or Hindi Day is celebrated every year on 14 September. On this day in the year 1949, the Constituent Assembly had decided that Hindi would be the official language of the Central Government. The official language of India is designated as Hindi in Devanagari script in Article 343 of the Constitution of India. Due to luminaries like Beohar Rajendra Simha, Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Kaka Kalelkar, Maithili Sharan Gupta and Seth Govind Das, it started being celebrated as Hindi Day.
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