Jamshedpur, Sept. 2: The National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML) organised a host of events, as part of the 48th “Hindi Fortnight” celebration, which kicked off at their auditorium today.

The main attractions would be a Hindi workshop on administrative terminology and a Hindi touch-typing competition for the employees of the laboratory.

Apart from this, a Hindi dictation, essay, a stress management lecture in Hindi would be organised at the programme.

Inaugurating the celebration, NML director S.P. Mehrotra highlighted the importance of Hindi and appealed to the employees to promote the language so that information related to scientific research activities undertaken by NML can reach the grassroots. “Hindi is the only medium through which we can approach common mass,” he said.

Secretary of NML Rajbhasha implementation committee Purushottam Kumar said the Hindi Fortnight is being celebrated for the 48th consecutive year. “The programme is popular among NML staff and they participate enthusiastically,” said Kumar.

About 200 employees, including senior scientists and head of departments, would participate in the celebration, which would end on September 15 with a Hindi workshop. The laboratory’s Rajbhasha implementation committee would co-ordinate the programmes.