Hindi mandatory till Class 10: President agrees in principle
The HRD Ministry has been asked to “encourage” institutes that do not have Hindi department to open such departments.
The President has given “in principle”
approval to the recommendation made by a Parliamentary panel that the “HRD
Ministry needs to make credible efforts for making Hindi a compulsory subject”
and Hindi should be “compulsorily taught in all CBSE schools and Kendriya
Vidyalayas until Class X”. “The Central government should discuss with the
state governments and form a policy,” a Presidential order, dated March 31,
stated.
The HRD Ministry has been asked to
“encourage” institutes that do not have Hindi department to open such
departments. The panel, set up under the Official Languages Act, had submitted
its ninth set of recommendations to the President in 2011. These were sent to
different ministries and state governments for their comments.
Of the total 117 recommendations to promote
the use of Hindi in various spheres of public life, the government has rejected
and modified many. Accepted recommendations include one which “stresses” that
“those holding top government posts, especially those who read and speak Hindi,
give their speeches/statements in Hindi. This category includes the President
and all ministers”.
Among the significant ones rejected include a
recommendation that “proper efforts to be made for implementing Article 102 of
the Constitution for using Hindi/mother tongue in Parliament”, and a
recommendation that sought the “withdrawal of government recognition” of
schools that do not “impart primary education in Hindi or mother tongue”.
The government also rejected “penal
provision” for failure to implement the Official Language Act, besides a
recommendation that companies that have “shares of people and the government”
use Hindi as per the Official Language Act.
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Accepted
ones include equal honorarium for guest speakers at Hindi workshops organised
by ministries at par with speakers at workshops on other subjects; Hindi
translators and co-announcers of Akashvani be given salary at par with
translators of foreign languages like French, Nepalese; filling vacancies for
the post of Hindi officers in various departments, introducing the option of
writing answers and giving interviews in Hindi in higher education
institutions of non-Hindi speaking states, and in central services, Railway
purchase of only those electronic equipment that also have the facility to
work in Devnagari, tickets of Railways and Air India to also have information
in Hindi, and Hindi as an option to write answers in all UPSC examinations.
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Among the rejected recommendations are the
introduction of a column in ACRs of government employees about the monthly
targets made and achieved for Hindi; a column in ACR about their “ability to
write columns etc in Hindi”; minimum knowledge of Hindi for government jobs,
and a provision to introduce Hindi examination for those seeking jobs in
central departments.
Some recommendations have been modified. The
original recommendation that the Ministry of External Affairs make a
“time-bound programme to make Hindi a language of the UN” and implement it has
been modified with the caveat that the ministry make a “budget estimate” for
this scheme and then “deliberate over preparing the programme”. The
recommendation that “products of all companies” should carry details in Hindi
has been modified and made obligatory only for government, quasi-government
companies and organisations.
Source | Indian Express | 19 April 2017
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