Evaluation of Plan Schemes of the Department of Official Language

often the requisite number of books that merit awards are not available and
a number of prizes remain undistributed (see Annexure IV). This is one
reason for shortfall in expenditures on this head. Another reason is that the
conferences and award ceremonies are sometimes combined. A decision
was taken in the last year of the plan to increase the cash amount of the
Indira Gandhi Awards. Also a new award scheme for in-house journals in
Hindi was introduced from 2006-07.
PRINTING & PUBLICITY
Under this scheme money is made available to the Research & Publicity
unit both for maintenance of vehicle, photocopiers etc and for printing and
publication of posters, calendars and other material. As seen earlier, there
is considerable shortfall in expenditure under this scheme, partly because of
some billing problems in the early years of the plan. There are no physical
targets set under the scheme and, during the last year of the plan,
expenditure was also incurred on arranging exhibition of books, magazines
and journals during the Official Language Conferences, etc.
Under this scheme the DOL has printed and distributed posters and
calendars to increase awareness and motivation of officials/employees for
progressive use of Hindi. It has also brought out an artistic book, called
Akshar, which links each letter of the Hindi alphabet with a painting. The
Annual Report of the DOL for 2005-06 reports that 60,000 posters were
distributed among different offices. Also Manuals regarding the use of
Hindi, Book Lists, Annual Programme, Annual Assessment Report, Annual
Report and Raj Bhasha Bharti were distributed among the central
government offices all over the country. The Annual Report of 2006-07 also
reports the distribution of 12,000 Raj Bhasha Calendars for the year 2007.
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