Hindi Divas is being celebrated across country today

Hindi Divas is being celebrated across the country today. It was on this day in 1949 that the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi written in Devanagari as the official language of the country. Home Minister Amit Shah will present Rajbhasha Awards to chiefs of various departments, Ministries and offices for their outstanding performances in promoting the language.

Rajbhasha Hindi, spoken by around 40 per cent



people across the country, is the single largest spoken language among the 22 languages in the sixth schedule of the constitution. Government has taken several steps to promote the Rajbhasha. And at the international forums, Hindi is being well received. The pioneer was the former PM Atal Behari Vajpayee whose address to the UN General Assembly is still recalled by one and all.