Vishwa Hindi Diwas

Why in News?

• Vishwa Hindi Diwas (VHD) or World Hindi Day (WHD) is recently celebrated every year on 10th January to promote the Hindi language all around the world.

Highlights

• Whereas Hindi Diwas is celebrated on 14th September annually, which focuses largely on recognition of the Hindi language in India.
• It was first celebrated In 2006 to commemorate the anniversary of the first World Hindi Conference which was held in Nagpur on 10th January, 1975.
• It marks the day when Hindi was first spoken in the United Nations’ General Assembly in 1949. It is also celebrated by Indian embassies located in various parts of the world.
• The World Hindi Secretariat building was inaugurated in Port Louis, Mauritius in 2018.
• The purpose of this day is to create awareness about the Indian language and promote it as a global language around the world. It is also used to create awareness about the usage of the Indian language, and about the issues persisting around the usage and promotion of the Hindi language.
• The National Hindi Day Is celebrated every year in India on September 14 to mark the day of adoption of Hindi as the official language by the Constituent Assembly of India in 1949.
• Kaka Kalelkar, Maithili Sharan Gupta, Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Seth Govindadas made important contributions to make Hindi the official language.
• Hindi is also an eighth schedule language.
• Article 351 pertains to ‘Directive for development of the Hindi language