Marking the seventh day of Toornyanad Hindi Festival, guest lectures and competitions were held on Sunday.
Khichdi competition for non-Hindi speaking students of the colleges was organized at 1 pm and IAS Nishant Jain and IAS Pradeep Dwivedi joined as guest speakers in the guest lecture at 5 pm.
Like every year, this year too, Khichdi competition was organized among the non-Hindi speakers with the aim of creating interest in Hindi. The contest was conducted in two stages through online mode.
In the first phase, the participants had to send audio in Hindi on a given topic through Anuhandak. The selected students were given admission in the last phase in which they were assessed on the basis of activities like seeing their picture, telling Hindi names, conversing in Hindi, solving puzzles among themselves.
The total prize money of the competition was Rs 6000. Meenavalli Ramya won the first prize. Neha V and Nandini Priya won the second and third prize respectively. Later, IAS Pradeep Dwivedi, an electrical engineering alumnus and senior IAS officer Nishant Jain were present as guest speaker. While guiding the students on the topic of "Employment Opportunities in Hindi", Nishant Jain threw light on employment in the following areas
Addressing the reason for Hindi not becoming a language of employment, Shri Pradeep Dwivedi said that this will be possible only when we make books of employment related subjects like engineering, medical in simple Hindi.
Those who have advanced in these fields, translate these books into Hindi, then only we will be successful in making Hindi the language of employment.
Along with Hindi, we should also work to promote other languages ??of India, he added.Describing the main reason for the low proportion of selection in Hindi language in civil examinations, Nishant said that our system is a victim of inferiority complex about Hindi. Also, the circumstances that the student went through in the interview should be evaluated keeping in mind.