A meeting of the editors of the Hindi newspapers was held on Sunday. Various issues related to prevention of the use of English in Hindi newspapers were discussed during the meeting.
Rashtrabhasha Prachar Samiti’s (RPS) Chairman Kailash Chandra Pant said that people are doing conspiracies to deform Hindi.
This initiative of the newspaper regarding the prevention of use of English in the Hindi newspapers is commendable. This is a fight for Hindi and for the country.
Madhavrao Sapre Journalism Institute’s Convener Vijaydutt Shridhar said that a lot of efforts are needed to complete this initiative. We all should create a favorable environment for Hindi.
The Chief Editor of ‘Subah Savere’, Umesh Trivedi said that we all should work in order to prevent the use of English in the Hindi newspapers as we are all responsible this. We should think about the thought of the language along with the improvement in the language. This is an ideological campaign hence it would work slowly.
The Chief Editor of ‘Samay Jagat’, Ashok Tripathi stated that we should raise our voices against the discrimination of the Government for the newspapers.
Newspapers should be felicitated for protecting the dignity of Hindi.
The director of ‘Naidunia’, Apoorv Tiwari has also created a ‘whatsapp’ group for the campaign and suggested the members of the group to make the other members aware about their activities.
Pramod Bharadwaj of ‘Haribhoomi’ stated that this is a good initiative for the language.
A committee of senior journalists should also be formed in order to get guidance and support for this campaign.
Convener of the programme and the chief editor of ‘Swadesh’, Rajendra Sharma said that this campaign is not against the any newspaper but this is against the practice of using English in the Hindi newspaper.
Sharma has also appealed the social workers and the political parties to support this campaign.