‘Hindi will strengthen integration of NE states with national mainstream’

AGRA, NOVEMBER 2: Mizoram Governor Lt Gen (retd.) Nirbhay Sharma today pitched for promotion of Hindi in northeastern states, saying the language will strengthen the process of integration of the region with the national mainstream.
“Hindi language will strengthen the process of integration of the northeast region with the national mainstream,” he said after releasing a Hindi-Mizo dictionary published by the Central Hindi Institute here.
“The growing popularity of Hindi globally has facilitated socio-cultural connectivity. With improved relations with Bangladesh now, Mizoram is on its way to play more significant role in future,” the Governor said.
Stressing that development of the state was vital for India as it bordered several countries including Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal, Sharma said “post independence, there was just 50 kilometre of rail network in the state, but now better rail-road connectivity has led to efficient mobility and opening up more prospects for development of the entire region.”
Director of the Central Hindi Institute, Nand Kishor Pandey said “work was going on to publish 40 dictionaries in different languages, of which 10 have already been published.”
He said more students from non-Hindi speaking areas were joining various courses to learn Hindi, which was growing globally and becoming a language of the market.
“Mizoram students were keen to learn Hindi and demanded that the state-run Hindi Training College in Aizawl be taken over by the central government to provide better teaching facilities,” he added.
Students from northeast, Orissa, southern states and more than 35 countries were studying Hindi at the Central Hindi Institute here.