A committee of the Human Resource Development Ministry has recommended for asking the States to encourage their school teachers to teach in Hindi voluntarily, instead of directing them to make teaching in Hindi language compulsory at classes IX and X.
However, it has suggested that the HRD Ministry should increase the “original Hindi correspondence” in official matters across the country.
This came at a meeting of a Hindi advisory committee, chaired by Minister of State for HRD Mahendra Nath Pandey, on Monday.
“In the meeting of the Hindi Advisory Committee of HRD Ministry, members emphasized that the states should encourage teachers to teach Hindi voluntarily, instead of giving instructions or directions about teaching Hindi compulsorily in class IX and class X in view of the progressive use of the official language,” the Ministry said in a statement.
The committee also recommended that the HRD Ministry should increase the original Hindi correspondence “in the Regions 'A' 'B' and 'C' in official use of Hindi.”
According to the Centre's Official Languages Rules, the “Region A” means the States of Bihar, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh as well as the Union Territories of Delhi and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The 'Region B" means the States of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Punjab and the Union Territory of Chandigarh, while the "Region C" means the rest of the States and the Union Territories in the country.
For increasing the official communications in the three regions, the Committee suggested that simple and popular words in Hindi should be used, instead of difficult once.
The members of the advisory committee also recommended that the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology should prepare technical terminology in trilingual form—English, Hindi and regional languages.
Published 23 May 2017, 10:13 IST