KENDRIYA HINDI SAMITI RECONSTITUTED

Kendriya Hindi Samiti reconstituted







The Kendriya Hindi Samiti has been reconstituted. The 41 Member Committee has Prime Minister as its Chairman and the Union Home Minister as Deputy Chairman. The Union Ministers of Human Resource Development, Information & Broadcasting, Communication & IT, Railways, External Affairs and Minister of State for Official Languages in the Ministry of Home Affairs and Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions are among the Members. Chief Ministers of Bihar, Rajasthan, Kerala, Punjab, Assam and Odisha are also among the Members besides several eminent personalities. Secretary, Department of Official Languages will be member Secretary.







The functions of this Samiti will be to bring about coordination in the work and programmes relating to the development and propagation and progressive use of Hindi for official purposes by the various Ministries/Departments of Government of India.







The Samiti will have the power to appoint Sub-Committees and co-opt additional members, as may be necessary, for assisting it in the discharge of its functions. The team of the Samiti will be three years from the date of its reconstitution



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