NEW DELHI: Government continues to make efforts for the acceptance of Hindi as one of the official languages of the UN and an amount of Rs 5.98 crore has been allocated in the current fiscal for the propagation of the language worldwide, Lok Sabha was told today.
Minister of State for External Affairs M J Akbar noted that at the last World Hindi Conference organised in Bhopal in 2015, one of the sessions was devoted to the theme ‘Hindi in Foreign Policy’ in which one of the recommendations reiterated was that it should be made a UN language.
“A committee has been established under the chairmanship of External Affairs Minister for implementation of this and other recommendations made at the conference. A World Hindi Secretariat has also been set up in Mauritius in February 2008, to promote Hindi as an international language,” he said in a written reply. (AGENCIES)
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