Developing Hindi as link language

Rajamundry: The State Education Minister, Mr. P. V. Narasimha Rao, declared here yesterday that unless Hindi developed in the non- Hindi speaking areas as much as it did in the Hindispeaking areas, nothing much could be achieved towards the development of Hindi in the way in which it had been envisaged.

Mr Rao, who was inaugurating the Regional Hindi Teachers’ Seminar organised by the Akhil Bharatiya Hindi Samastha Sangh under the auspices of the Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha ( Andhra) and Hindi Prachar Sabha ( Hyderabad), said Hindi had to be considered in the context of its envisaged role as a link language, able to unite the feelings, aspirations, hopes and expectations of the nation as a whole.

The Minister pleaded for every encouragement of Hindi writers in non- Hindi areas and appealed to Hindi writers of Hindi speaking areas to encourage and appreciate Hindi talent in the non- Hindi speaking areas though it might not be on par with their own standards.

Proper and sufficient material should be supplied to teach Hindi in nonHindi areas, he added.

Mr. Ganga Saran Sinha, MP and President of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindi Samastha Sangh, who presided said there was no doubt in his mind that some good would come out, if Governmental and nonGovernmental personnel in the education field sat together to find practical solutions to problems like whether to have a two- language or three- language formula.

Swami Ramananda Tirth, President, Andhra Pradesh unit of the Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha, called on Hindi scholars of Hindi- speaking areas to learn the greatness of the literature of other Indian languages and thus enrich Hindi.