Union Home Minister Amit Shah to inaugurate ‘Bharatiya Bhasha Anubhag’ on September 14

New Delhi [India], September 13 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate ‘Bharatiya Bhasha Anubhag’ on Saturday with an objective to promote use of Indian languages along with Hindi and establish better coordination between them.

Shah will inaugurate the ‘Bharatiya Bhasha Anubhag’ while attending the inaugural session of official language Diamond Jubilee celebrations and the 4th Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan being organised by Department of Official Language on September 14-15 here in the national capital to commemorate the completion of 75 years of Hindi becoming the official language, a statement said.

Keeping in view the intent of the Constitution and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s direction, a Home Ministry statement mentioned, the Department of Official Language of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had proposed to establish Bharatiya Bhasha Anubhag with the objective of promoting the use of Indian languages along with Hindi and establishing better coordination between them.

Inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and under the able guidance of Union Home Minister, the Official Language Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs is organising Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan every year since 2021, the statement said.

At the event, Shah will launch the Diamond Jubilee Special Issue of ‘Rajbhasha Bharti’ magazine. He will also launch a commemorative postage stamp and coin to make the Diamond Jubilee memorable. The Home Minister will also present the Rajbhasha Gaurav and Rajbhasha Kirti Awards on this occasion. Along with this, some more books and magazines will be released.

Union Home Minister had conceptualised organising Hindi Diwas on a large scale in various cities of the country in the year 2019. Realising this concept, Hindi Diwas and the first Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan were organised in Varanasi in 2021. After that, Hindi Diwas and the second and third Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan were organised in Surat in 2022 and Pune in 2023. These events have infused new energy among the Official Language personnel and officers across the country.

Organising the Hindi Diwas event and the Fourth Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan in the National Capital is also special in the sense that the Official Language Department is celebrating this occasion as the Diamond Jubilee. The 75-year journey of Hindi becoming an official language has not only crossed many important milestones but also made continuous progress in the field of technology.

In the two-day 4th Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan, an in-depth discussion will be held on the progress of Hindi as an official language, public language, and contact language in the last 75 years.

In the post-lunch session on the first day of the conference on September 14, there will be a discussion on ‘Official Language Diamond Jubilee – Progress of Hindi as an official language, public language and contact language in 75 years’. While the second session will be ‘India’s cultural heritage and Hindi’, which will be addressed by popular Hindi poet and orator, Dr Kumar Vishwas.

In the third session of the conference on September 15, the country’s famous linguists and lexicographers will present their views on ‘Role of dictionary in language teaching and specialty of Devanagari script’. The fourth session will be on ‘Contribution of “Town Official Language Committee” in the implementation of official language Hindi in the era of technology’.

The fifth session will be on ‘Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita 2023, Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023: A Discussion’, which will be addressed by Union Minister of Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal. The last session will be ‘Indian cinema, a powerful medium for the development of Hindi language’, which will be addressed by renowned actor Anupam Kher and well-known film producer and director Chandraprakash Dwivedi.

More than 10,000 participants are expected to attend the two-day conference, which includes Rajbahasa officials from all over the country as well as Hindi scholars and senior officials of the Central government.