About
the Purvottar Hindi Academy
Purvottar Hindi Academy is
a non-governmental organization working on social development issues in
Meghalaya, India. Its operations cover All the North-Eastern States.
Purvottar Hindi Academy
was formed on September 1990 (Registration Year 2003) at Rynjah, Shillong,
Meghalaya as an Educational, Literary & Cultural Organization, and
functioning under the constructive advice and financial support from the
different Govt. & non Govt. Organization. Social worker Shri Bimal Bajaj is
its Chairperson, Secretary (Honorary) is Dr. Akelabhai and it has a nominated
body of senior Scholars and representatives of various departments to guide it
in its activities. The basic aim and objective of the Academy is to propagate
the Indian languages & literature through various socio-educational and
cultural programs.
Purvottar Hindi Academy is a non-profit
organization dedicated to uplifting of Hindi as well as other Indian languages
in the North-Eastern States. Academy has no full time paid staff. Hence we are
able to keep a minimal overhead for administrative expense. This minimal
overhead is typically covered through contributions from volunteers and well
wishers.
During past 10
years we have organized more than 200 Seminar, Symposium, Hindi Training,
Debate, Quiz, Dance, Essay & Drawing Competition, Extempore and Literary
meets of the Students, Authors and Poets from all over India in collaboration
with North Eastern Council, Shillong, Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Samiti, New
Delhi, Commission for Technical Terminology, New Delhi, Indian Council for
Cultural Relation, Shillong, Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, Nagri Lipi
Parishad, New Delhi, CIIL, Mysore, Central Hindi Directorate, New Delhi, UNICEF,
Delhi, Kahani Lekhan Mahavidyalaya, Ambala Cantt., Border Security Force,
Shillong, Central Institute of Hindi, Shillong etc. This academy boosts all the
literary Critics, poets, lecturer, students and other social workers.
Vision
To create a healthy and
equal society where every single human can speak and write Hindi Language in
the State of any irrespective of age group, sex, caste, creed and religion.
Ensure them that they are self confidence while they speak Hindi. Encouraged to
think on their own and express their ideas using their experiences, knowledge
and imagination.
Aims and Objectives
·
To promote Hindi language, literature and
Nagari script in Meghalaya.
·
To take up specific activities for the
welfare of non-Hindi speaking people and educate them in the field of Modern
Indian languages, literature, art & culture through Hindi language.
·
To promote the innate feeling of the
non-Hindi speaking people for promotion of Hindi language, literature, art
& culture in the Meghalaya.
·
Publication of books, periodicals,
translation in Hindi from literature of other Indian languages. (i.e. Khasi,
Garo, Assamese, Boro, Manipuri, Bengali etc.)
·
To bring all the people of the Indian
National at the single platform with its multilingual literary works and other
activities.
·
To develop the sense of brotherhood and
equality in the minds of the people.
·
To affiliate with other organization
(Non-Political) having similar aims & objectives.
·
To give platform for new talents in the
field of Hindi language, art and culture.
·
To felicitate senior citizens working in
the field of Hindi language & literature for their achievements.
Target Group
- Non-Hindi speaking people of the North-Eastern
Region.
- Students and Teachers of the various Schools,
Colleges and University.
- Research Scholars and Academicians at various
labels.
- All the people associated with the development
of Rajbhasha Hindi, Hindi Officers, Hindi Translators and Hindi Typists of
Central Government Offices.
- Hindi writers & Journalists from all over
India.
Relevance of the
Conference
Hindi is one of the 22 official languages of India and
is used as the primary official language of
the Republic of
India along
with English.
The Constitution of India, adopted in 1956,
declares Hindi in the Devanagari script
as the official
language. Hindi is also enumerated as one of the twenty-two
languages of the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India, which entitles
it to representation on the Official Language Commission. Hindi
is also the main language in many states of India such as Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh,
Uttaranchal/ Uttarakhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Himachal
Pradesh. It is spoken by more than 437 million people in the world. The other
dialects of Hindi are Brajbhasha, Bundeli, Awadhi, Marwari, Maithili, and
Bhojpuri, to name only a few. It
was in the 10th century that authentic Hindi poetry took its form and since then
it has been constantly modified. History of Hindi literature as a whole can be
divided into four stages: Adikal (the Early Period), Bhaktikal (the Devotional
Period), Ritikal (the Scholastic Period) and Adhunikkal (the Modern Period).
Hindi stands third in the list of most widely
spoken languages in the world: 'As
per the research conducted by 'World Languages department' in New York, Hindi
language stands third, just after English and Chinese, in the list of most
widely spoken languages in the world. Hindi is used as a spoken language right
from Nepal, Kabul-Kandahar (Afghanistan) till Dhaka (Bangladesh). Hindi is the
commercial language of Mauritius and Fiji. A 'World Hindi summit' was
also conducted' in which the lead was taken by those countries in which Hindi
is spoken.
Khasi is an Austro-Asiatic language spoken primarily in Meghalaya state in India by the Khasi people. Khasi is part of the Khasi-Khmuic
group of languages, and is distantly related to the Munda branch of the Austroasiatic family,
which is found in east-central India.
There are many
tribal languages in Meghalaya. Hindi has been declared as an Official Language
by our Constitution. Promote the innate feeling of the non-Hindi speaking
people for promotion of Hindi language, literature, art & culture in the
Meghalaya More over this will help the students also when they come out of the
region in big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Pune etc. The project will enhance
their confident level while dealing with the people other state. So we should
take major step to create about the importance of our Official language. We are
organizing many such conference and seminars where we will highlight why Hindi
is important.
The project
would be implemented in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya and focus on
improving the Hindi education in the selected areas. The project would also put
an effort to break the silence among the locales while interacting. This
National Conference (Under our scheme “North-East Hindi Promotion Campaign”)
will be organized by Purvottar Hindi Academy (A Educational & Literary
Organization of the North East). This Conference, one of its kinds, is being
organized in all 8 states of North Eastern. But we are targeting in Meghalaya.
Region for uplifting of official language Hindi, for the third time. More than
80 literary and linguistic delegates will be participating in the every
Conference. A total of around 200 delegates will comprise from the NE States.
Felicitation will be accorded to all the participating delegates.
Conclusion
This Conference is being organized for creating a
conductive environment towards a proper working culture in various Central
Government offices in our very own official language Hindi and will have varied
beneficial effects on the local literary atmosphere. The efforts will be
on favor the academy for the further acceptance of Rajbhasha Hindi as well as
other Indian Languages by the local people of North-Eastern Region.
