Nagaland Rashtrabhasha Prachar Samiti observes Hindi Week
Dimapur, September 23 (MExN): The opportunities for Hindi professionals in both private and public sectors are increasing nowadays and the people of North East India have advantage over other parts of the country as they are good in English, maintained a DoSE Hindi official.
“If they excel in Hindi, they will have more advantage for being bilingual experts,” added Hindi Education Officer, Directorate of School Education, SN Dubey, according to a press release.
He was speaking as a chief guest of the main celebration of Hindi Pakhwara (week) observed at Nagaland Rashtrabhasha Prachar Samiti (Hindi Uchchatar Vidyalaya) School, Kohima on September 21. Hindi teachers and students of different schools attended the function.
Along with the rest of the nation and abroad, the Samiti observed the Hindi Pakhwara (week) from September 14-21.
Dubey highlighted the importance of Hindi at this present globalized world and said that people’s attitude towards Hindi is very positively changing. In the last 32 years of his work experience, he said, he has seen lots of changes in Hindi profession. Dubey, however, maintained that there are still rooms for changes in “our thinking towards the Official/National language and its development.”
“Without a national language our country will remain dumb,” he stressed. All the languages are equally important, yet Hindi is the language of communication across the country among the common people and even in some countries abroad, he further stated.
Pointing out that many more steps are needed for the progress, propagation and development of Hindi, Dubey urged that students’ community should not study Hindi just to be a teacher but to go beyond that.
In the chairman’s remark, DSE Hindi Coordinator, Dr. BP Philip pointed out that Hindi is nation’s pride and all the languages of India are jewels of the country. “Every step should be taken up for the development of Hindi with job opportunity in various sectors,” he added.
The programme was moderated by AHM of the Institute, Kesaw Kumar Mahatto and welcome address was delivered by the former Principal, Dr. Abhijit Payeng. The programme also witnessed several performances from various quarters and concluded with vote of thanks by HM of the Institute, Omprakash Tiwari.
