Under the activities of Official language in Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) organised ‘Unicode Typing Test’, where employees participated enthusiastically.
The programme was coordinated by Mohd. Rehan and Ravindra Gupta. On this occasion they said “Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language. Unicode enables a single software product or a single website to be targeted across multiple platforms, languages and countries without re-engineering. It allows data to be transported through many different systems without error”.
In the afternoon, a colloquium on Maha Shweta Devi was be organized where Rajendra Jharia, Ravindra Gupta, SK Pandey, DD Senapati, lalit Baagul, Deepak Kumar Chaudhari, P Shankar Rao shared their thoughts on life and writings of Maha Shweta Devi. They said “It is with her hard work and honesty, she honed her persona and continued to work for the upliftment of the society, for this she has been felicitated with Gyanpeeth Award and several other”.
The programme was coordinated by Assistant Curator Arun Kiro and Officer in charge, Cine-Video HBS Parihar. Speaking on this occasion Parihar shared incidents from his field work with Maha Shweta Devi and said “She was a writer, poet, novelist, journalist and also a social worker. She throughout her life struggled to defend the interests of the underprivileged of the society, nomadic tribes and communities have”. On this occasion, Kiro shared experiences of field research work with Maha Shweta Devi in the year 1992.
Under activities of Official language fortnight an essay writing competition on ‘Bhasha aur Sanskriti’ will be organised on Tuesday, September 20th, 2016.