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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Cost of keeping Hindi alive: Rs 349 crore in 3 years-Neha Shukla

Cost of keeping Hindi alive: Rs 349 crore in 3 years-Neha Shukla

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published Published on Mar 19, 2013   modified Modified on Mar 19, 2013
-The Times of India

LUCKNOW: The government has spent crores on promoting Hindi in the country and abroad in recent years. A recent RTI query sent to the department of language (DOL) has revealed that Rs 348.90 crore was allocated between 2009 and 2012 to develop and promote the language.

The DOL's reply to the RTI query justifies the largesse, saying that the money has been well spent. Anticipating the question why the same treatment has not been extended to other languages in a country of remarkable linguistic diversity, DOL adds: "Hindi has been recognised as an official language under Section 343 of the Constitution."

The endeavours have borne fruit, DOL claims, citing the increase in the number of town official language implementation committees (TOLICs) being set up - 26 new TOLICs have been set up during the last eight months compared to the five-six set up on average every year previously. The committees -297 in all-- are responsible for reviewing and promoting the implementation of the official language policy and to discuss the difficulties being faced in that process.

Besides DOL, the HRD ministry too promotes and propagates Hindi, through three institutions -- Central Hindi Directorate (CHD), Central Institute of Hindi (CIH) and Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT). The ministry oversees degree and post-graduate courses in Hindi in the universities also.

Some experts say that the promotion of Hindi as an official language is often misunderstood. "It's totally justified that the government is spending so much on promotion of Hindi as the official language. It should be a working language for at least the central government institutes," said director, Central Institute of Indian Languages ( CIIL), Mysore, Prof Awadhesh Kumar Mishra.

Former HRD minister Kapil Sibal had even suggested in 2009 to the Council of Boards of School Education that Hindi should be taught in all schools along with two other languages. Since then, more than 68,000 officials have reportedly been trained in Hindi by the Central Hindi Training Institute and more than 20,000 non-Hindi speaking learners have picked up the language through correspondence courses and personal contact programmes.

The language needs to be given its due as it has had a secondary status to English, which continues to be used in official communications and is being spoken by a growing number of Indians, says acting chairman of Hindi Sansthan, UP, Uday Pratap Singh. There have been anti-Hindi agitations in the past in a few southern states, but Singh says that it would be wrong to say "that states in south have not taken to Hindi as an official language. Promotion of Hindi is linked to national integration and pride."


The Times of India, 19 March, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Cost-of-keeping-Hindi-alive-Rs-349-crore-in-3-years/articleshow/19054877.cms


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