Hindi Diwas Speech – 2

"Respected Principal, Dear Fellow Teachers, Dear Parents and My Dear Students!

Like every year, we have assembled again today for celebrating Hindi Diwas. I feel extremely honoured to have been given this responsibility to host the programme. Our School celebrates Hindi Diwas with utmost zeal and fervour. Hindi is our national language and a part of our identity too, thus it gives me immense pleasure to welcome you all to the celebration today on Hindi Diwas.

Most of you must be aware that Hindi Diwas is celebrated every year on 14th September as on this day in 1949, the Indian Constituent Assembly accepted Hindi as the official language of our country along with English. Two years post Independence; the newly formed administration was under social pressure to unite the multiple cultural, linguistic and multiple religious groups of the nation. It was also important that the unique national flavour is maintained while the whole nation is brought together. Since India did not have any single language which could give it a unique national identity, Hindi was accepted as the solution for unification. More so, it is spoken in major parts of North India; it was an obvious resolution for national linguistic unification, though not the perfect one as a huge territory of non-Hindi speaking India was dissatisfied with this idea. They did not accept Hindi wholeheartedly as the official language since they could not connect to it due to the cultural mismatch.

This was a short and crisp background about Hindi Diwas. Our school celebrates this day every year as we want our students to recognise the importance of this language. In my opinion, one feels more connected and the conversation becomes personalised when we speak in Hindi; as it becomes easier to express our innermost thoughts and feelings. In fact, now even non-Hindi speaking regions have started understanding the language.

Along with imparting the knowledge of English and other subjects such as Maths and Science, we should also put emphasis on Hindi language, since we feel that Hindi is the representation of Indian unity and our national language too. Several functions, competitions and award ceremonies are held at our school as a part of this celebration. The theme for this year is ‘Hindi humari Matrabhasha’ (Hindi is our mother tongue). It is enthralling to see that kids have participated with great zeal and a huge credit goes to their parents too, who along with the teachers have inculcated this culture in their kids.

The centre is also emphasising on promoting Hindi language as the symbol of national unity and the Hindi Diwas celebration is an important part of these efforts. The day is celebrated at all central offices, schools and institutions. It is highly encouraging to see our Hindi language gaining popularity not only on national level, but also on International level.

Youth of today must come forward and join hands in promoting the language and take pride in being the care taker of Hindi Language. When we say so; we don’t mean that you do away with other languages, such as English or any other language you are comfortable with. We only appeal to all of you to unite India through one language, one nation.

Thank You!
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