All government institutions under the Central Government organises official language fortnight to promote the usage of Hindi official works. Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sanghralaya is organising Hindi fortnight from September 17, 2013 to October 1, 2013 to show our love and respect for our national language-Hindi.
During the official language fortnight various programmes and competitions are being organised- Hindi typing manual, Hindi typing computer and article writing. In all the competitions and programmes Sanghralaya employees are taking part with great zeal. An article writing competition in Hindi on “Modern lifestyle is responsible for social demoralisation” was organised in this series, coordinators Kiranbala Sharma and MR Sudhir Shrivastava says, “This competition has been organised to search the hidden talent among the IGRMS employees and improve their writing skills in Hindi”. More than 25 employees of IGRMS participated in the article writing competition.
A national symposium had been organised at Rock Art exhibition of IGRMS, where 25 traditional bamboo craftsmen, subject experts and scholars participated from all over India. Dr AK Bhattacharya, Director, MP State Bamboo Mission gave important details about route map of development of Bamboo usage and production in the State. He asked everyone to take oath to increase usage of bamboo in our day to day life.
Chief scientist of AMPRI, Bhopal and researcher of bamboo development Navin Chand says, “if modified bamboo is used it will provide stable and cheap housing to rural and tribal population. India still imports bamboo of $ 9 million dollar”.
Walter a Belgian by birth and member of Auroville Ashram, Pondicherry says “Bamboo is the raw material of future. It is not being utilized according to its capacity, with proper training better products from bamboo can be produced”. Sanjeev Singh, Reistrar, SPA said, “As a teacher it is my duty to train my pupil to utilise bamboo for maximum designs”. The symposium was inaugurated by Arun Kumar Shrivastava, Joint director, IGRMS.