The 30th meeting of the Town Official language Implementation Committee (TOlIC), Panipat was held at Indian Oil’s Community Centre, recently. The meeting was presided over by the chairman of TOlIC, Panipat region, TK Basak and attended by over 50 senior functionaries of the central government offices, undertakings, banks, insurance companies and central educational institutes like SBI, BSNl, Indian Postal department, NFl, CISF and others.
Neeta Choudhary, IAS, secretary, Official language Department, was the special guest on the occasion. Choudhary took the inputs on progressive use of official language from the administrative heads and thereafter dwelled upon on it.
The secretary in her address stressed on the importance of progressive use of Hindi as a link language. She also suggested that effective and proactive work is taken up on a regular basis so that it can be imparted to all employees in the organisation.
Basak appreciated the praiseworthy efforts of the member offices towards implementation of the official language which helped the committee to receive awards and laurels continuously from the government.
The Rajbhasha award was also awarded to Indian Oil Corporation limited, Northern Pipeline (NRPl), CISF Unit of Panipat Refinery, CISF Unit of NFl unit, National Handloom Corporation ltd Panipat, Indian Export Credit Guarantee Corporation ltd for commendable job in implementation of official language in their respective offices. Also present at the occasion were AK Choudhury, ED (HR), RHQ, Indian Oil who addressed the meeting with aplomb. He emphasised the use of Hindi in official business transactions to propagate the national language.