Ques: Recently, the ‘Hindi Diwas’ was celebrated. When Hindi was declared as the official language of the Republic of India by the founding fathers?
a. 15 September, 1949
b. 14 September, 1949
c. 14 September, 1950
d. 14 September, 1952
Ans: b
Related facts:
- September 14, 2015 the nation celebrated ‘Hindi Diwas’.
- On this day our founding fathers accepted Hindi as official language of the Republic of India unanimously.
- The decision of using Hindi as the official language was ratified by the Constitution of India that came into effect on 26 January 1950.
- Under the Article 343 of the Indian Constitution, Hindi written in Devanagri script was adopted as the official language.
- Now there are 22 Scheduled languages in India. There are 2 official languages: Hindi and English
- The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee had conferred awards in different categories for the excellence in different fields pertaining to Hindi at a function in Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.
- Ministry of Home Affairs in its order dated 25 March 2015 has changed name of two awards given annually on Hindi Diwas.
- ‘Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Puraskar’ instituted in 1986 changed to ‘Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar’ and ‘Rajiv Gandhi Rashtriya Gyan-Vigyan Maulik Pustak Lekhan Puraskar’ changed to “Rajbhasha Gaurav Puraskar”
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