All Government institutions under the Central Government organised official ‘language fortnight’ to promote the usage of Hindi in official work. Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sanghralaya is organising Hindi Fortnight from September 14 to 26 to show our love and respect for our national language-Hindi.
During the fortnight various programmes and competitions are being organised.
On the first day of official language fortnight, a poetry recitation of poetry by renowned Hindi poet Sumitra Nandan Pant was organised. In this programme, Arun Kumar Shrivastava (Director, IGRMS), Sunita Tripathi (Assistant Director, Official language, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India), Pratibha Som (Official language officer, IGRMS), Porwal (Official language officer, Doordarshan, Bhopal), Surya Kumar Pandey, DD Senapati, Ravindra Gupa, Neelam Shrivastava, Mohd. Rehan, Shrikant and Ashok Kumar Sharma participated.
later self composed poetry recitation was organised where, Kiran Bala Sharma read a poem on ‘female foeticide’, Sunil Gupta read his poem ‘Pyaar ka pehla ehsas’ and Seema read her poem ‘Hindi hai bhashaon ki rani’. On this occasion official language officer, Pratibha Som organized a training of regional language. P Shankara Rao gave training of common words of Telugu. In other competitions — Hindi typing manual and Hindi typing computer were organised. In all the competitions and programmes Sanghralaya employees are taking part with great zeal. More than 25 employees of IGRMS participated in the typing competition.