CHAPTER-XIV

Use of Hindi in the Ministry

 

 

14.1      For proper implementation of the Official Language Policy as well as provisions of the Official Language Act, 1963 and Rules made thereunder, there is a Hindi Section in the Ministry.

 

14.2      In pursuance of Rule 10(4) of Official Language Rules, 1976 the Ministry was notified on 5.1.1978 as an office of Central Government whose staff has acquired working knowledge of Hindi.

 

14.3      Under Section 3(3) of the official Language Act, 1963 it is mandatory that both Hindi and English version shall be used for certain purposes specified therein.  Use of Hindi as obligatory for certain purposes under the various provisions of Official Languages Act, 1963.  To ensure that the papers are issued bilingually or in Hindi only, a check point has been set up in General Section (Issue Section) in the Ministry.

 

14.4      An Official Language Implementation Committee has been set up to ensure the proper implementation of Official Language Policy in the Ministry.  During the period under report, 4 meetings of the Implementation Committee were held on 29.3.2001, 29.6.2001, 13.9.2001 and 24.12.2001 respectively.

 

14.5      To advise the Ministry on matters relating to the progressive use of Hindi in Official work and for implementation of the Official Language Policy, there is a Hindi Salahkar Samiti in the Ministry.   During the period under report, one meeting of Hindi Salahkar Samiti was held on 4th June, 2001. 

 

14.6      To keep a constant watch on the use of Hindi in the Ministry for various official  purposes a programme has been chalked out to inspect all the Sections of the Ministry.  During the year under report, inspection of all the Section was carried out to assess the progress made in the use of Hindi in the Ministry.

 

14.7      “Hindi Fortnight” was celebrated in the  Ministry from 1st September to 14th September, 2001.  At the time of its inauguration, an appeal was made to the Officers/employees of the Ministry to do more and more work in Hindi during the year.  Two competitions were also held during the Fortnight viz (i) on the spot noting-drafting Competition and (ii) Hindi Typing Competition.

 

14.8      A function was organised on ‘Hindi day’ i.e. on 14th September, 2001. In the function Prizes were  awarded to winners of various competitions.  Under the scheme of cash prize on noting-drafting, three employees were awarded cash prize of Rs.1000/- First Prize, Rs.600/- Second Prize and Rs.300/- Third Prize respectively.  Four employees were awarded prizes in the form of books under the ‘on the spot noting-drafting Competition’.  Three employees were awarded cash prizes of Rs.100/-, Rs.75/- and Rs.50/- respectively under the ‘Hindi Typing Competition.’

 

14.9      There are 12 Sections in the Ministry.  Out of these Section, 6 Sections were doing nearly cent-percent work in Hindi and rest of the 6 Sections were doing 50% work in Hindi.  At present

 

percentage of work in Hindi in all the 12 Section of the Ministry is as follows:-

 

                        1.         General Section                                     100%

                        2.         Implementation I Section                        100%

                        3.         Implementation II Section                      100%

                        4,          Hindi Section                                         100%

                        5.         Administration Section                           100%

                        6.         Legislative II Section                             100%

                        7.         R & C Section                                        50%

                        8.         Welfare Section                                      50%

                        9.         Committee Section                                  50%

                        10.        Legislative I Section                               50%

                        11.        Work Study Section                                 50%

                        12.        IFC Section                                             50%

 

 

      14.10    To encourage the use of Hindi in the Ministry, two Hindi workshops were organised during the year viz. one from 9th April to 16th April, 2001 and the other from 9th July to  13th July, 2001.  In these workshops, 19 employees were imparted training on noting and drafting in Hindi.              

 

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