Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, July 24: The Hindi Cell along with the Counselling Cell of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar today organised the first webinar on the implementation of Rajbhasha Hindi in the technical Institute.
The webinar was presided over by in-charge Director NIT Srinagar, Prof. M. F Wani and Prakash Chandra Mishra, Former Deputy Director (Income Tax) and Hindi Officer (MNNIT Allahabad) was the chief guest on the occasion.
Assistant Prof. Dr Ravi Bhushan, Hindi Officer and Assistant Professor, Dr Neeraj Gupta, Incharge Counselling Cell were the coordinators of the event.
On the occasion, Prof. M.F Wani congratulated the organising committee for organising the webinar on Rajbhasha.
He said the Hindi language is among the oldest languages in the world and there is a need to work more for its implementation.
Dr Wani said there is a need to focus on its revival and our researchers and scientists should focus on translating the all-major scientific books in the Hindi language, otherwise, there will be a gap to adopt it as a Rajbhasha.
Registrar NIT Srinagar, Professor Kaiser Bukhari said it is the first time in the past 20 years that NIT has organised a webinar on the Hindi language.
Prof. Bukhari said the impact of the Hindi language in Kashmir is less as compared to other parts of India.
He said that NIT Srinagar had already recruited a Hindi translator and the website is being translated in the Hindi language to implement Rajbasha,” he said.
In his key address, Chief Guest Prakash Chandra Mishra and Former Deputy Director (Income Tax) and Hindi Officer (MNNIT Allahabad) emphasized the effective use of simple Hindi language and gave various meaningful suggestions.
Mishra said there is a misconception among the people that numerals were used by Britishers but the reality is they were called Indo-Arabian digits.
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