World Hindi Conference to push the language as means to employment

NEW DELHI: India is set to host next month, after a gap of 32 years, the World Hindi Conference, which will focus for the first time on promoting the language as a means to employment.

Narendra Modi government has pulled out all the stops to make a success of the event, where superstar Amitabh Bachchan will be a guest speaker, after the country made a significant contribution at the recent World Sanskrit Conference in Bangkok.The Narendra Modi government has pulled out all the stops to make a success of the event, where superstar Amitabh Bachchan will be a guest speaker, after the country made a significant contribution at the recent World Sanskrit Conference in Bangkok.

The external affairs ministry is the principal organiser of the 10th edition of the conference, which will be held in Bhopal from September 10-12 and feature a dozen sessions over three days. The main theme of this year’s conference is ‘Hindi Jagat: Vistar avm sambhavnai (the world of Hindi: expansion and possibilities)’, marking a departure from the previous editions which focused primarily on literature.

“A significant portion of Indian population speaks Hindi and yet many of them find it difficult to get employment within the country as English has become the prevalent language for securing jobs.



Therefore the idea is to now change the approach and promote use of Hindi in science and technology, administration, foreign policy, judiciary, and information and technology, among other sectors, to help job creation,” Mridul Kumar, joint secretary (Hindi) at external affairs ministry told ET.

Kumar rued that meritorious students from Hindi medium schools are not being able to perform well after joining premier institutions such as the IITs.