New Delhi, Sept 13 (UNI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah will address the inaugural session of Official language Diamond Jubilee celebrations and 4th Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan at the Bharat Mandapam here on Saturday.
Addressing a press conference here, Anshuli Arya, Secretary, Department of Official Language, said the Official Language Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs has been organising Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan every year since 2021.
She said that Shah will launch the Diamond Jubilee Special Issue of ‘Rajbhasha Bharti’ magazine and will also launch a commemorative postage stamp and coin.
The Home Minister will also present the Rajbhasha Gaurav and Rajbhasha Kirti Awards on this occasion. Along with this, some more books and magazines will be released, she informed.
On this occasion, Shah will launch Bharatiya Bhasha Anubhag. Keeping in view the intent of the Constitution with the objective of promoting the use of Indian languages along with Hindi and establishing better coordination between them, the Department of Official Language had proposed to establish Bharatiya Bhasha Anubhag, the Secretary said.
The Home Minister had conceptualised organizing Hindi Diwas on a large scale in various cities of the country in the year 2019. Hindi Diwas and the first Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan were organised in Varanasi in 2021. After that, Hindi Diwas and the second and third Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan were organized in Surat in 2022 and Pune in 2023.
In the two-day 4th Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan, an in-depth discussion will be held on the progress of Hindi as an official language, public language and contact language in last 75 years.
There will also be a discussion on ‘Official Language Diamond Jubilee – Progress of Hindi as an official language, public language and contact language in 75 years’. There will also be ‘India’s cultural heritage and Hindi’, which will be addressed by popular Hindi poet and orator, Kumar Vishwas.
On Sunday, country’s famous linguists and lexicographers will present their views on ‘Role of dictionary in language teaching and specialty of Devanagari script’. There will also be a session on ‘Contribution of “Town Official Language Committee” in the implementation of official language Hindi in the era of technology’.
There will be a session on ‘Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita 2023, Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023 which will be addressed by Union Minister of Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal.
The last session will be ‘Indian cinema, a powerful medium for the development of Hindi language’, which will be addressed by actor Anupam Kher and well-known film producer and director Shri Chandraprakash Dwivedi.
Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha, Harivansh, Union Ministers of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai and Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Vice-Chairman of Parliamentary Official Language Committee Bhartruhari Mahtab and others will be present in the inaugural session.
More than 10,000 participants are expected to attend the two-day conference, which includes Rajbahasa officials from all over the country as well as Hindi scholars and senior officials of the government.
