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<h1 class="gmail-news_title">Naidu advises MPs to talk in Hindi without hesitation</h1>
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<span>Wednesday, 04 April 2018</span><span></span> | <span>PNS</span> | New Delhi
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<span><p>
Expressing concern over the Hindi Salahkar Samiti (advisory committee)
of the Rajya Sabha not meeting for the last three and half years,
Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday directed that two meetings of this
important committee shall be held every year henceforth, mandatorily. He
said this while presiding here over the meeting of the committee meant
for promotion of use of Hindi in the Rajya Sabha Secretariat.</p>
<p>
After detailed review of implementation of the Official Language Policy
in the Secretariat, the members of the committee while noting the
substantial use of Hindi in the Secretariat stressed on the need for
total compliance with the provisions in this regard.</p>
<p>
Naidu urged the members of Rajya Sabha, hailing from non-Hindi speaking
areas, to speak in Hindi if they chose to do so without the fear of
grammatical mistakes. Referring to his own experience, the Chairman
recalled that he did not know Hindi when he first came to Delhi but soon
picked up the language by speaking without any hesitation. He further
said “King can do no wrong. You are Members of Parliament and can speak
freely without the fear of committing mistakes.”</p>
<p>
He said the best way of propagating Hindi is encouraging its use
instead of forcing others to adopt it. Naidu further said knowing
different languages is advantageous and urged North Indians to learn any
South Indian language of their choice as it would promote national
unity and integration.</p>
<p>
The Chairman also called for simple translation of business related
matters into Hindi so that more and more MPs are encouraged to use it.
He urged the need for adopting widely popular words from other languages
in Hindi for its easy acceptance.</p>
<p>
During the discussion non-Hindi speaking Members called for permitting
them to make grammatical corrections in their printed Hindi speeches so
that they could speak without the fear of committing mistakes which in
turn would be on record. </p>
<p>
Besides Deputy Chairman P J Kurien, the Rajya Sabha Members who
attended the meeting of the committee included Satyanarayan Jatiya,
Harivansh, Vinay P Sahasrabuddhe, K Keshav Rao, Prabhat Jha, Ravi
Prakash Verma, Prasanna Acharya and Jharna Das Baidya.</p></span></div></div></div></div>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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