Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday that government officials should use “simple Hindi” to encourage the spread of language among the masses.
Mr. Singh, who was addressing a meeting of the Hindi Advisory Board, said “Hindi, which can be communicated easily by everyone, has made the language popular and influential.”
The committee also discussed the issue of non-publication of official documents and reports in the language and stressed the need for its promotion.
One of the members suggested that there should be a Hindi logo for “Indian Police Service,” and all police officials should have bilingual name badges on their uniform.
A member of the advisory committee also suggested that all official documents and reports be published in Hindi, an official who attended the meeting said.
While praising the work done by the Official Language division of the Ministry, Mr. Singh welcomed the recommendations of a parliamentary committee on official languages that had recently been accepted by the President.
As many as 110 out of 117 recommendations in the report were accepted by the President. The recommendations accepted by the President included options for students to write their exams in Hindi, minimum knowledge of Hindi must for government jobs and mandatory announcements in Hindi at railway stations in non-Hindi speaking States like Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Kerala.
