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17.1

PROGRESSIVE USE OF HINDI

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is committed

to promoting to use of Hindi in Official work during

2013-14 as the annual programme issued by the

Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home

Affairs and Official Languages policy of the Union. The

matter pertaining to the use of Hindi in the Ministry is

supervised by a Joint Secretary in-charge of Official

Language. There is an official language Division of the

Ministry headed by a Director, reports to the Joint

Secretary.

A number of measures have been taken for encouraging

use of Hindi in the official work. They are summarized

below:

17.2

IMPLEMENTATION OF 3(3) OF THE

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE ACT

In pursuance of the official language policy of the

Government of India, all documents covered under section

3 (3) of the Official Language Act, 1963 are being issued

both in English and Hindi. Action plan based on the

checkpoints identified in the Ministry has been prepared

to ensure compliance of the official language policy.

Annual programme and other orders/instructions issued by

the Department of Official language were forwarded to all

the sections of the Ministry and its subordinate/attached

offices/autonomous organizations for information and

directives were issued for their compliance.

17.3

OFFICIAL LANGUGE IMPLEMENTATION

COMMITTEE (OLIC)

There is an official language Implementation Committee

(OLIC) under the chairmanship of a Joint Secretary in-

charge of the Official Language and its meetings are

held regularly in each quarter. This committee checks

out strategies implement the Constitutional provisions

of Official Language Policy of the Union in the Ministry

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USE OF HINDI IN OFFICIAL WORK

and its subordinate/attached offices/autonomous

organizations and to achieve the targets prescribed in

the Annual Programme issued by the Department of

Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs. The

committee periodically reviews the progress made in

the use of Official Language (Hindi) and suggests and

recommends measures to be taken for the effective

implementation of the official language policy. The

subordinate/attached offices/autonomous organizations

of the Ministry were also instructed for convening their

OLIC meetings regularly.

17.4

HINDI FORTNIGHT

In order to encourage the use of Hindi in official work

amongst officers/employees of the Department, the

Hindi fortnight was organized in the Department during

14-30 September, 2013. Various competitions such as

Hindi essay writing, Hindi Typing, Hindi noting/drafting,

Hindi general knowledge, Hindi dictation and self-

composed poetry recitation were organized. As many as

44 winners of these competitions were awarded with

cash prizes and certificates.

17.5

HINDI WORKSHOPS

During the year three Hindi workshops were organized

in the Department to encourage the officials to

accomplish their minimum possible official work in

Hindi. In these workshops various provisions relating

to official language policy were explained and the

participants were given training as how to install Unicode

in their computers and how to type out letters in Hindi

using the English key board. This session proved to very

much thrilling and useful for all participants. In all 70

officers/officials participated in these workshops.

17.6

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE CONFERENCE

The Department has taken a new initiative from the

current year to organize annually two Official Language

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Conferences in all offices under its administrative

control with a view to create conductive atmosphere for

usage of the official language policy of the Union of

India. The scheme was inaugurated on 26th December,

2012 at the National Institute of Mental Health and

Neuro Sciences, Bangaluru. Hereafter, two days

conference held on 22-23 February, 2013 in Pasture

Institute of India (Tamil Nadu). More than 125

participants including representatives from various

offices under the Department took part in the conference.

On the opening day there were three sessions namely,

'the problems in usage of Official Language and their

solutions, translation related technique and

Standardization of Hindi and its spellings'. On the

second day, two sessions were dedicated to the

technological advancements where intensive training of

'offline' and 'online' Hindi typing was given to the

participants on computers through Unicode using the

English Key Board and they were made to practice the

same.  Whole session of conference performed by Shri

Rajesh Shrivastva, Assistant Director (OL), Ministry of

Health & Family Welfare, while Major orator of various

sessions were: Shri Ram Niwas Shukla, Deputy Director

(OL), Shri Manoj Abusaria, Deputy Director (OL) and

Shri Rajesh Shrivastva, Assistant Director (OL).

Programme held under Chairmanship of Shri B. Sekhar,

Director, PII, Coonoor, (Tamil Nadu) was very

successful.

17.7

INSPECTIONS REGARDING

PROGRESSIVE USE OF HINDI

In order to oversee the achievement of targets laid down

in the Annual Programme issued by the Department of

Official Language, offices were inspected by the officers

of the Ministry which included 9 offices of Chennai,

Chandigarh, Kerala and New Delhi.