Hindi Diwas 2024

• 16 Sep 2024

Source: PIB

India celebrated Hindi Diwas on 14th September 2024, marking the 75th anniversary of Hindi's adoption as the official language of the country.

• The Union Minister for Home Affairs and Cooperation released a commemorative postage stamp to mark the completion of 75 years of Hindi as an official language.
• On 14^th September 1949, the Constituent Assembly designated Hindi in Devanagari script as the official language of the Union of India.
• The Munshi-Ayyangar formula, a compromise between K M Munshi and N Gopalaswamy Ayyangar, resulted in Article 343 of the Constitution adopting Hindi in the Devanagari script as the official language of the Union, while allowing English to continue for official purposes for fifteen years.
  • As the 15-year period ended, protests over the fear of Hindi imposition led to the Official Languages Act 1963, which upheld English as an official language alongside Hindi.
• Articles Related to Hindi:  Article 210 states that the language to be used in the legislature can be the official language of the state, Hindi, or English.
  • Article 351 states that it shall be the duty of the Union to promote the spread of the Hindi language, to develop it so that it may serve as a medium of expression for all the elements of the composite culture of India.
• Hindi is one of the 22 languages listed in the eighth schedule of the Constitution of India and It is not a classical language. 
  • The language is named after the Persian word 'Hind' meaning 'land of the Indus River' and is a descendant of Sanskrit.

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