Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 22: Dogra Brahman Pratinidhi Sabha (DBPS) today appealed the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir to come out with executive order for performing all official and administrative work in Hindi.
“Since erstwhile J&K State has now become Union Territory, all administrative and official meetings and issuance of further orders should be in Hindi language” said Ved Parkash Sharma, president DBPS, while addressing a meeting with the Sabha office bearers here today.
He said that in Delhi and Chandigarh, long established as Union Territories, the official work is performed in Hindi.
Senior member of the Sabha Advocate P C Sharma said that now Dogri/Hindi can also be used as medium language in the official documents/work in UT. He said these languages can be easily understood by every citizen of the UT.
Prominent social activists B S Jamwal, Subash Shastri and senior BJP leader Advocate Chander Mohan Sharma came out with suggestion to increase the circle of Sanskrit language and to double the efforts to popularize the same.
Pt V M Mangotra, N C Sharma, M L Sharma, Satyanand Sharma, Shiv Ram Sharma, Gurdas Sharma, Jagan Nath Sharma, Soujanya Sharma and others were also present in the meeting.