All dignitaries, including the President and Union Ministers, may soon start giving speeches in Hindi if a parliamentary panel’s recommendations accepted by President Pranab Mukherjee are implemented.
The recommendation that all dignitaries, especially those who can read and speak Hindi, may be requested to give their speech/statement in Hindi only, has been accepted. The President has accepted many other recommendations, including announcements on Indian aeroplanes being made in Hindi before in English.
On flights, half of the reading material should consist of Hindi newspapers and magazines as “Hindi is grossly neglected by airlines”, as per the panel’s recommendation, accepted by the President.
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The Ministry of Civil Aviation has been asked to ensure implementation of the recommendations.
Mukherjee has accepted another recommendation of the Committee that maximum usage of Hindi should be ensured on all tickets of Air India and Pawan Hans helicopters.
A recommendation favouring full cent percent availability of bilingual training material in bilingual at the Mussoorie-based Lal Bahadur Shashtri National Administrative Academy, where the premier institute to train civil servants are trainedincluding those in Indian Administrative Service (IAS), has also been accepted.
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The panel had asked the Ministry of Human Resource Development to make serious efforts to make Hindi Language compulsory in curriculum. “As a first step, Hindi should be made a compulsory subject up to tenth standard in all schools of CBSE and Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan,” it had recommended.
“This recommendation is accepted in principle. The Union government should form a policy in consultation with State governments,” the order said.