A National Hindi Workshop organized by Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) with Official language Department, Ministry of Culture Govt. of India began here on Thursday.
Chief Guest of the workshop Pankaj Rag, IAS Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Government of India and special guest VP Gaud Director, Rajbhasha, Ministry of Culture, Government of India inaugurated the workshop by lighting the lamp.
During the two-day long workshop, officials from various Central Government bodies and departments of Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh are participating.
Addressing the participating officials, Rag said “All officials belong to Hindi speaking and ‘IJ’ category of states, it is mandatory for your offices to do maximum work in Hindi.”
He further said, “If your offices don’t have a Hindi typist or Steno, then organize training of Hindi typing at local level, with Unicode it has become much easier to type in Hindi. All letters irrespective of their language should be responded in Hindi only”.
On this occasion Rag, Gaud, Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri (Director, IGRMS) launched the Rajbhasha magazine of IGRMS ‘Aayaam 11’ and two books ‘Saap ka Anda- Munda lok kathayen’ and ‘Mouji Baiga – Baiga lok kathayen’ authored by late. Ghanshyam Gupta and published by IGRMS in presence of the author’s family.
In the first session, Ved Prakash Gaud spoke on ‘Official language policy of Indian Government’ and answered the queries of guest present. In next session, Mohammad Rehan from IGRMS Bhopal gave presentation on ‘Role of Computer in the promotion of Hindi’. In the third session, Anand Krishna Verma from BSNl, Bhopal spoke on ‘Technical vocabulary and translation techniques’. The workshop has been coordinated by Official language Officer, Sudhir Shrivastava.