Union Home Minister Amit Shah said here on Wednesday that Hindi language is not a competitor but “friend” of all other regional languages of the country and they are interdependent. He denounced the “disinformation” campaign to pit Hindi against native languages and underlined the need to strengthen local languages along with Hindi.
addressing all India On Hindi Diwas at the Rajbhasha Sammelan in Surat city, Shah said there was a need to acknowledge the co-existence of languages and stressed the need to make Hindi flexible enough to expand its lexicon to words from other languages. Shah said that unless the Hindi language is flexible, it cannot develop.
“I want to make one thing very clear. Some people are spreading rumors that Hindi and Gujarati, Hindi and Tamil, Hindi and Marathi are competitors. Hindi cannot be a competitor of any other language of the country. You must understand that Hindi is the friend of all languages of the country,” Shah said.
He said that indigenous languages in the country would prosper only when Hindi would prosper and vice versa.
“Everyone should accept and understand this. Unless we accept the co-existence of languages, we cannot fulfill the dream of running the country in our own language. And I want to honestly say that it should be our goal to keep all languages and mother tongues alive and prosperous. Hindi will prosper only by the prosperity of all these languages.”
He said that Hindi is an inclusive language and called for strengthening indigenous languages along with Hindi. Shah said that the British banned literary works in various Indian languages, including 264 in Hindi, 58 in Urdu, 19 in Tamil, 10 in Telugu, 22 each in Punjabi and Gujarati, 123 in Marathi, nine in Sindhi, There are 11 poems in Oriya. 24 in Bangla and one in Kannada.
“It shows how the official language and native languages strengthened the freedom struggle which forced the British to ban them,” he said.
The senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said, “We have to make policies with indigenous thinking emerging from indigenous languages rather than ideas originating from foreign languages.”
The Union Minister said there is a need to make the Hindi dictionary “very large and comprehensive” to increase its acceptability in the country and abroad. “No language becomes inferior by the adoption of words from other languages, but its scope is widened.
We have to make Hindi flexible. Unless we do this, we cannot progress Hindi,” he said while inaugurating the first edition of a dictionary “Hindi Shabd Sindhu”.
Shah said indigenous languages and Hindi are “the lifeblood of our cultural flow”. “If we are to understand the heart of our history and the literary works of the past several generations, we have to learn ‘Rajbhasha’ and strengthen our native languages,” he said.
Shah said that every language is rich in its own right. “It is the strength of India that the country enriched itself with different languages. These languages have taken care of Indian culture, traditions and literature and have also helped in connecting people to the root of the country.
Citing personal experience, Shah said that children who study in their mother tongue can easily learn Hindi. He said that the new national education The policy talks of providing school education in regional languages up to class 5 and continuing till at least class 8. “High quality education and published literature should be provided in vernacular languages. Work is underway to translate the curriculum of 20 engineering colleges in ten states into native languages.
He said that the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has translated the first semester of medical education into Hindi which will be taught from next year. Shah said that he also wants the judiciary to go ahead with working in vernacular languages.
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