India: HINDI WEBSITE OF MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS LAUNCHED

[Harold F. Schiffman]

>>From Press Information Bureau Government of India

Friday, August 18, 2006
  Ministry of External Affairs

HINDI WEBSITE OF MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS LAUNCHED
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The Ministry of External Affairs will now have a website in Hindi also.
The website, which can be accessed at www.mea.gov.in, was launched by the
Minister of State for External Affairs, Shri Anand Sharma at a function
here, this evening. The Hindi website has initially been launched as a
mirror image of the Ministrys English website. Launching the website, Shri
Sharma said that the Hindi website will help in creating greater awareness
among the people about Government of Indias policy and perspectives on
important foreign affairs. It will go a long way in generating interests
in Indian democracy, literature, culture, arts and socio-economic
development. The website will also be helpful in getting feedback by
inviting comments from viewers on the content, the Minister added.

The Ministry of External Affairs is actively engaged in implementation of
the Official Language Policy of the Government and is playing an important
role in promotion of Hindi abroad. Presently, Hindi is being taught in
about 600 universities and schools in over 40 countries. In countries like
China, Japan, South Korea, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Germany,
U.K. and USA, Hindi is taught at post-graduate level. Regional Hindi
conferences are held every year in different countries. In the current
year, these conferences have been held in Australia and Abu Dhabi in
February, 2006 and recently in Tokyo in July, 2006. Seven World Hindi
Conferences have been held so far at Nagpur (1975), Mauritius (1976), New
Delhi (1983), Mauritius (1993), Trinidad & Tobago (1996), London (1999)
and Suriname (2003).

AK/NSD/MK

http://pib.nic.in/release/rel_print_page1.asp?relid=19964

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