Hindi Diwas or Hindi Day is celebrated on 14 September every year in India. The constituent assembly of India adopted Hindi written in Devanagari script as the official language of India on 14 September, 1949. Schools and colleges held literary and cultural programmes on this day.
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Every year Hindi Diwas or Hindi Day is celebrated on 14 September in India. This day marks the importance of Hindi language. Hindi is the national language of the India and the most spoken in India. Mahatma Gandhi had also supported Hindi and said to make Hindi as India's official language.
History of Hindi Diwas or Hindi Day
The constituent assembly of India adopted Hindi written in Devanagari script as the official language of India on 14 September, 1949 due to the efforts of Beohar Rajendra Simha, Maithili Sharan Gupt, Rajendra Prasad Dwivedi, Kaka Kalelkar and Seth Govind Das. As on 14 September, 1949 there was the 50th birthday of Beohar Rajendra Simha and on that day Hindi was adopted as the official language.
Hindi is the official language under article 343 of the Indian Constitution. Officially first time Hindi Diwas was celebrated on 14 September, 1953.
Importance of Hindi Diwas
Hindi Diwas or Hindi Day is celebrated to promote the hindi language worldwide. Its main motive is to overcome the use of English which has been growing day by day and make the youth aware about the importance of Hindi. All over the world, Hindi is the third most spoken language after English and China's Mandarin language.
Many colleges and universities outside India also teach Hindi like London University, Cambridge University and Yark University. Tech Giant Google also launched Hindi language on its platform and the usage of Hindi increased a lot on Google.
How is Hindi Diwas celebrated?
Many schools, colleges and universities held competitions in Hindi on this day to promote the language. Competitions like hindi speaking, poems, essay writing, creative and beautiful writing in hindi and many other competitions. Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar and Rajbhasha Gaurav Puraskar awards are given to ministries, departments, public sector units (PSU), nationalised banks and institutions on Hindi Diwas for promoting Hindi.
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