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| Students of Kasturba Gandhi Residential School sing on Hindi Diwas at Tata Auditorium on Tuesday. (Bhola Prasad) |
Jamshedpur, Sept. 14: The steel city joined the rest of the country in celebrating Hindi Divas through two different events, today.
The Jharkhand Education Project Council, East Singhbhum, held a Hindi Divas Samaroh for state-run school students at Tata Auditorium. East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Himani Pandey, who inaugurated it, said: “Children should have command over Hindi to play with words.”
Also present were city-based Hindi poets and prose writers such as Jyotsna Asthana, Pramod Kumar, district superintendent of education Sushil Kumar, among others, who read from their self-composed works. “This function aims to promote Hindi among the young,” said Kumar.
In the second event, faculty members of Jamshedpur Women’s College’s Hindi department exhibited 1,000 Hindi books across genres from their personal collection.
“Students can borrow our books to enrich their literary horizons in Hindi, but the books are not for sale,” said faculty member Sulakshana Toppo. The event would last till September 21.
Hindi Divas is celebrated today because the Constituent Assembly of India had adopted Hindi as the Union’s official language September 14, 1949.