1995-96 - Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany

1995-96
Status of Official Language
In pursuance of the Government of India's Official Language policy various steps
were taken to promote the usage of Hindi in Office-work. TI,e Institute is the Convener of the
City's Implementation Conunittee of Official Language Unit-II. The meetings of the Committee
are held regularly.
'Hindi Pakhwara' was organised in the Institute from September 14-28, 1995. On
this occasion several competitions like Hindi Typing, Debate and a Kavya Sandhya, etc.
were organised and prizes were distributed to the winners. Six officers/employees were encouraged
with incentive awards for doing official work in Hindi. On this occasion a compilation
'Pankhudian' (in Hindi) was released.
A two-day Hindi Workshop on December 21-22, 1995 was also organised. Forty
eight members of the Institute-Scientific, Technical and Administrative, were trained for
doing official work in Hindi and 22 other trainees from other organisations under Unit-II
and other sister institutions participated in the Workshop. Sri R.D. Ram, Director, All India
Radio, Lucknow inaugurated the workshop and Professor S.P. Dixit, Head of the Department
of Hindi and Modem Indian Languages, Lucknow University was the Chief Guest.
The facility for working in Devnagri has been provided on available computers.
Seven per cent of the work is done on computers in Hindi. Twenty five PC and two Softwares
'Akshar' and 'Davebase' were purchased. Various forms have also been made bilingual. A
post of Hindi Translator was also created to promote the usage of Hindi in the office work.
This year, 36 new books have been added to the list of Hindi books in the Library of the
Institute.
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