Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said that all the eight states of the North East have agreed to make Hindi compulsory in schools up to Class X.
He also said that 22,000 Hindi teachers have been recruited in the eight states of the North East.
Chairing the 37th meeting of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee in New Delhi today, Shah also said that nine tribal communities of the North East have converted their dialects’ scripts to Devanagari.
Shah said that when citizens of States who speak other languages communicate with each other, it should be in the language of India.
“Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English and not to local languages. Unless we make Hindi flexible by accepting words from other local languages, it will not be propagated,” he said.
Shah also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided that the medium of running the government is the official language and this will definitely increase the importance of Hindi.
He said that now the time has come to make the official language an important part of the unity of the country.
The Union Home Minister informed members that now 70 percent of the agenda of the Cabinet is prepared in Hindi.
