Hindi Diwas is celebrated annually on September 14 to promote the language and its usage across the nation. Hindi Day in India is celebrated with seminars, quizzes, other activities in schools and other educational institutions. Extempore speech, essay writing in Hindi are also organised in an attempt to make promote the language.
As part of Hindi Divas Celebration 2021, Films Division is observing Hindi Pakhwada from September 1 to September, 15 to promote use of practical Hindi in official work. To encourage the officers and officials for working in Hindi, various competitions were organised. Dictation, essay writing, elocution competitions, quiz competition, were amongst the few, a government statement added.
January 10 marks the first World Hindi Conference that took place in 1975, in Nagpur, Maharashtra. In 2006, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared January 10 as World Hindi Day. Another objective of the occasion is to present Hindi as an international language.
The Central Board Of Secondary Education (CBSE) wishing everyone on Hindi Diwas today said: “Hindi is not just our language. Hindi is also our identity.”