Cabinet ministers served notices for not updating Hindi websites
4 Oct 2014 6:23 AM IST
Months after ruling the government softened its stand on imposing Hindi following a hue and cry by the regional parties the centre has once again initiated the process and sent notices to ministries to follow the instructions. Informed sources said that there are 29 ministries who were found not adhering to the notices and were asked to do the needful at the earliest.
‘In the annual programme issued by the Department of Official Language, for the usage of Hindi in Central Government Offices, 100 per cent target has been fixed for updating of Hindi websites for all ministries and departments. Some websites are updated simultaneously both in Hindi and English, whereas Hindi content has not been updated properly on some websites,’ the circular reads.
Informed sources said the decision has once again started rolling after prime minister Narendra Modi delivered his speech in Hindi at the United Nations. It was decided that all the ministries will be monitored through a Quarterly Progress Report (QPR) to keep a watch on whether they have taken the directive seriously or not.
The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been asked once again to organise training in Unicode to enable persons to work in Hindi on computers. Some of the ministries who were cautioned are include ministry of Minority Affairs, Department of Ayush, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Consumer Affairs, Fertilisers, Pharmaceuticals, corporate affairs, Agriculture, Food Processing Industries, Tele-communication, Civil Aviation, Panchayati Raj, Atomic Energy, Tourism, Animal Husbandry and Dairy, Earth Sciences, drinking water and sanitation.
Recently, MoS, Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju insisted that he will promote the use of Hindi in all official work. The statement invited criticism from regional parties, which forced Home minister Rajnath Singh to play down the controversy by saying the centre will promote all languages in the country.
‘I have decided that we will give priority to the promotion of Hindi in all communications in various departments and public life because it is our official language,’ Rijiju had said.
Then slamming the decision, DMK chief Karunanidhi said, ‘Giving priority to Hindi will be construed as the first step towards attempt at creating differences among non-Hindi speaking people and making them second class citizens.’ In 1960, the DMK had spearheaded the anti-Hindi agitation in Tamil Nadu.
‘In the annual programme issued by the Department of Official Language, for the usage of Hindi in Central Government Offices, 100 per cent target has been fixed for updating of Hindi websites for all ministries and departments. Some websites are updated simultaneously both in Hindi and English, whereas Hindi content has not been updated properly on some websites,’ the circular reads.
Informed sources said the decision has once again started rolling after prime minister Narendra Modi delivered his speech in Hindi at the United Nations. It was decided that all the ministries will be monitored through a Quarterly Progress Report (QPR) to keep a watch on whether they have taken the directive seriously or not.
The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been asked once again to organise training in Unicode to enable persons to work in Hindi on computers. Some of the ministries who were cautioned are include ministry of Minority Affairs, Department of Ayush, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Consumer Affairs, Fertilisers, Pharmaceuticals, corporate affairs, Agriculture, Food Processing Industries, Tele-communication, Civil Aviation, Panchayati Raj, Atomic Energy, Tourism, Animal Husbandry and Dairy, Earth Sciences, drinking water and sanitation.
Recently, MoS, Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju insisted that he will promote the use of Hindi in all official work. The statement invited criticism from regional parties, which forced Home minister Rajnath Singh to play down the controversy by saying the centre will promote all languages in the country.
‘I have decided that we will give priority to the promotion of Hindi in all communications in various departments and public life because it is our official language,’ Rijiju had said.
Then slamming the decision, DMK chief Karunanidhi said, ‘Giving priority to Hindi will be construed as the first step towards attempt at creating differences among non-Hindi speaking people and making them second class citizens.’ In 1960, the DMK had spearheaded the anti-Hindi agitation in Tamil Nadu.
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