We should never forget our Motherland, Mother tongue and Mother. We can learn languages only when we have love for it,” says, PJ Sudhakar, Additional Director General, Press Information Bureau. He was speaking at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya on the occasion of concluding ceremony of ‘Hindi Fortnight’.
He described the role of mother in mother tongue and patriotism by reciting few lines on mother from his article, which has been translated in 30 languages around the world.
The programme commenced with inaugural address by Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri, Director, IGRMS. He congratulated Officers and employees for the ‘Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar’ presented by the President and asked everyone to continue promotion of Rajbhasha with the same intensity.
The guest of honour of the concluding ceremony, Kailash Chandra Pant (Chairman, Hindi Bhawan) said, “For increasing nation’s identity and honour, people from every state should communicate with each other and for that Hindi is the only language.” He further said the rise Hindi as the popular language is because of efforts of non-Hindi speaking States.”
Sudhakar and Pant awarded the winners of various competitions, coordinators and judges.
Manav Sangrahalaya observed Hindi fortnight from September 14 to September 29, 2015 under which various competitions and programmes were organised.
To increase writing and typing capabilities competitions like article writing, story writing, Unicode typing were organised. The mental capabilities and general awareness were tested through debate, quiz and crosswords. Along with that competitions like video, photography, poster making, your five minutes and tribal and regional music take out their art and cultural talent. All employees participated with great zeal and enthusiasm and showed their love for official language Hindi.
The programme was coordinated by Pratibha Som (Official language officer) and Arun Kumar Shrivastava (Joint Director) presented the vote of thanks.