With all government departments completing “Hindi Pakhwada” (Hindi fortnight), celebrated on the occasion of Hindi Diwas, the diktat to maintain a certain percentage of communication in Hindi is giving sleepless nights to ministry officials.
To promote Hindi, the national language, the government has deputed a Hindi official in each ministry who carries out an inspection from time to time. The inspector undertakes surprise checks to see if departments are communicating in Hindi. But many bureaucrats feel this drive will not last for long as official communication is normally in English even if the signature and the title are in Hindi.
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