IGNOU to establish Rajbahasha Cell in 56 Regional Centres

24/10/2012 12:10

 

Mr. Sharad Gupta, Secretary, Rajbhasha, Ministry of Home Affairs, welcomed the initiative of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) to establish a ‘Rajbahasha Cell’ in all the 56 Regional Centres of the University to promote the usage of Hindi. University organized a teleconference on ‘Hindi: Our official language and its implementation in all the IGNOU Regional Centres’.

The session was broadcast on Gyan Darshan channel of the university where all the RC’s were simultaneously and proactively connected through the tele-conference mode in the Electronic and Media Production Centre (EMPC) at IGNOU headquarters.

The ‘Rajbhasha Cell’ shall comprise of five members comprising of Regional Director, Assistant Regional Director, coordinators and staff of the RC. It shall conduct meeting once in every three months whose minutes shall be communicated to the headquarters, announced Prof. Srikant Mohapatra, Director, Regional Services Division.

Mr. Sharad Gupta brought forward two aspects of Hindi as a language categorizing it in literary and daily usage. According to him, both the forms are acceptable depending upon the comfort level of the user. “Our objective should be to make Hindi hassle free and meaningful. It is not necessary to use Hindi in its literature form everywhere, rather if we use the language spoken in its daily usage then it will make the task much easier,” he added.

“It is a common conception that the usage of Hindi is difficult while communicating scientific knowledge but today, there are many books available in Hindi translations to make the task easier. IT-sector has lots of tools available with it to enable the usage for example, there is UNICODE wherein anyone can use computer in any regional language, be it Hindi, Punjabi, Oriya etc.,” said Mr. Harendra Kumar, Director, Official Language Policy, Ministry of Home Affairs.

“We have been doing our every bit to promote Hindi at IGNOU. If there is no study material available in Hindi but we have its study material available in English then the student has the option to answer in Hindi in the Term End Exams and even in the assignments,” claimed Prof. Gopinath Pradhan, Vice Chancellor, IGNOU during the broadcast session.

Standing with the announcement made earlier during the ‘Hindi Pakhwada’, Mr. U. S. Toila, Registrar, IGNOU, maintained that the celebration of Hindi year will last till 13th September 2013 for which the training programmes are being organized twice every week for all the faculty members, staff, typists and stenographers.


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