Need better tech to keep Hindi language growing: VK Singh

AGRA: Hindi language is not only becoming popular in India but also growing across the world and to keep the momentum going, better technology and facilities need to be employed, Union minister V K Singh said here Wednesday.

Speaking at the Kendriya Hindi Sansthan here, Singh, the Minister of State for External Affairs, said, “Hindi, now a genuine people’s language, was becoming popular not only in India but globally too,”.

The minister was here for the inauguration of the new entrance gate of the Sansthan, named after Hindi scholar Moteru Satya Narayan.

Singh conveyed his best wishes to the new students from 30 odd countries for the academic session 2018-19.

He said Hindi was “undoubtedly becoming popular and we need to employ better technology and facilities to ensure that the growth continues.”

The programme was attended by Hindi scholars, Agra mayor Navin Jain, BJP MLA Jagan Prasad Garg and local academicians. Cultural programmes by foreign students, particularly Braj ka Raas and Dandia, Naga dance, Saare Jahan se Achcha were appreciated.

Asked to react to the ongoing #MeToo campaign in which M J Akbar, the other junior foreign minister has faced allegations of sexual harassment by women journalists, Singh told media persons it was a “personal matter”.

Amid allegations and mounting demand for his resignation, Akbar has dug in the heels and refused to quit. He had slapped a criminal defamation suit against journalist Priya Ramani, one of the first to make the charges against Akbar. (AGENCIES)

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