- Hindi Diwas was celebrated across India on 14 September 2013 for commemorating the occasion of adoption of Hindi as the official language of Constituent Assembly on 14 September 1949.
- The decision of using Hindi as the official language was ratified by the Constitution of India that came into effect on 26 January 1950. Under the Article 343 of the Indian Constitution, the Devanagri script of Hindi was adopted as the official language.
- On the occasion of Hindi Diwas, the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee also conferred the awards in different categories for the excellence in different fields pertaining to Hindi at a function in Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.
- On the occasion, Rajbhasha Awards were conferred upon the Ministries, Departments, PSUs and Nationalised Banks.
It was envisioned that Hindi
would become the sole working language of the Union Government by 1965 (per
directives in Article 344 (2) and Article 351), with state governments being
free to function in the language of their own choice. However, widespread
resistance to the imposition of Hindi on non-native speakers, especially in South
India (such as the those in Tamil Nadu), Maharashtra, and in West Bengal, led
to the passage of the Official
Languages Act of 1963, which provided for the continued use of English indefinitely for all
official purposes. However, the constitutional directive for the Union
Government to encourage the spread of Hindi was retained and has strongly
influenced its policies.
At the state level, Hindi is
the official language of the following states: Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Madhya
Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi.
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