Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sanghralaya is observing 'Official language fortnight', in this series on Wednesday, a special lecture had been organised at rock art exhibition hall. The special lecture programme started with welcome speech by RM Nayal, Official language officer of IGRMS. After that Arun Kumar Shrivastava, Joint Director of Manav Sanghralaya gave a brief description of activities carried out under 'Hindi fortnight'.
Chief Guest and key speaker of the lecture, Mahesh Shrivastava explained when Hindi will be the language of science and teaching language of technology then only Hindi will become national language. Hindi is yet to be declared as the national language of India that's why we celebrate September as official language month and if Hindi had been declared national language 64 years back then there would have war in various regions. English was made a secondary language to Hindi for just 15 years but now Hindi is being used as secondary language.
He added "Mahatma Gandhi had the vision in a speech he said 'If was a dictator then I would have immediately stopped teaching in foreign languages in the country.
He guessed that Hindi will remain official and never will be made the national language of India. He further added "Indian Prime minister Shastriji's death Kaamraj was expected to be the prime minister but he refused to take up the post saying that 'I cannot speak Hindi I should not be the prime minister of India' this the respect for Hindi is".
In his speech, Presiding the special lecture programme, Vice Chancellor, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi University, Mohanlal Chhippa says, "Hindi is the world's third most spoken language.
British came to India 250 years before independence they fought for hundred years and ruled for next100 years.
A quiz contest in Hindi was also organised by Deepak Kumar Choudhary, Ravindra Gupta and Miss Smita Page. In the quiz Rashmi Shukla won the first prize, Sudhir Shrivastava stood second followed by Arun Kumar Shrivastav at third position and Mohd Rehan was awarded with consolation prize.