[lg policy] India:

[Harold Schiffman]

 Use Hindi besides regional languages, Naidu urges people

April 18, 2017

*Guwahati, April 18 (PTI):* Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu today urged the
people to use Hindi in their day-to-day life along with the regional
languages.



“The Centre is using more and more Hindi in government programmes and
policies and we have to make the habit of using the Rashtrabhasha in our
day-to-day life, along with the regional languages,” the Union Information
and Broadcasting Minister said while presiding over a meeting of the Joint
Hindi Advisory Committee here.



“Rashtrabhasha Hindi is an important tool and language for the development
of the nation,” Naidu, also the Union Minister for Housing and Urban
Poverty Alleviation, added.



Emotions could be easily and effectively shared with others in the mother
tongue as well as in Hindi, he said.



Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who was also present at the review
meeting, urged everyone to try and learn Hindi and use it more.



He thanked the Union minister for organising the meeting of the Joint Hindi
Advisory Committee in Guwahati.



Members of the Joint Hindi Advisory Committee of various states, including
secretaries and senior officers of both the ministries — Information and
Broadcasting and Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation — were present at
the meeting.



The committee undertook a review of use of Hindi as per the provisions of
the Official Language Policy of 1963.



Naidu described the role of the public broadcaster as “critical” in
spreading the “development story” of the government, especially the
programmes and policies specific to the north-eastern region.



He said it was essential to develop programmes in local dialects and
languages in order to reach out to diverse sections and added that
currently, the All India Radio broadcasts in 28 dialects of the north-east.

http://morungexpress.com/use-hindi-besides-regional-languages-naidu-urges-people/


-- 
**************************************
N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its
members
and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or
sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who
disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write
directly to the original sender of any offensive message.  A copy of this
may be forwarded to this list as well.  (H. Schiffman, Moderator)

For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to
https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/
listinfo/lgpolicy-list
*******************************************
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lgpolicy-list/attachments/20170419/6eb07287/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
This message came to you by way of the lgpolicy-list mailing list
lgpolicy-list at groups.sas.upenn.edu
To manage your subscription unsubscribe, or arrange digest format: https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/lgpolicy-list