Pranab Mukherjee accepts recommendation for speeches in Hindi

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday accepted the recommendation of the Parliamentary committee, for delivering speeches only in Hindi by dignitaries including President, Prime Minister and other senior ministers. The same would be applied to those who are able to read and speak Hindi.

The committee, six years ago, had made 117 recommendations of making Hindi more popular.

The President has sent the notification for the same to all ministers and Prime Minister's office for compliance. The term of Pranab Mukherjee will end in July. The coming President will be seen delivering speeches in Hindi.

Mukherjee also accepted other recommendations including usage of Hindi on Air India tickets, having Hindi magazines and newspapers for passengers etc. This will be followed only to the state-owned airline.

It also rejected few recommendations including mandatory use of Hindi for correspondence in public shareholding companies and all private companies in order to provide information of their products in Hindi.

According to the President's order, the government and semi-government organisations will have to mention the names of products in Hindi.

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Another rejection included the fixing of minimum level of Hindi knowledge for getting government job.

The President also accepted to make Hindi, a compulsory subject, from class 8 to class 10 in all CBSE and Kendriya Vidyalya schools.

Human Resource Development (HRD) miinistry will ask universities in non-Hindi speaking states to provide Hindi language as an option in examinations and interviews.

It may be mentioned here that since 1959 the Committee of Parliament on Official Language had provided nine reports to the President. The last report was given in 2011.