Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Hindi Diwas Wednesday, stressed on the need of learning the language in order to understand the culture and history of the country. He termed Hindi and local languages as "life of our cultural flow".
"Local languages and Hindi are the life of our cultural flow. If we want to understand the soul of our culture and history, we will have to learn the official language. If we want to understand these, we will have to strengthen our local languages," said the Union Home Minister at the second All India Official Language Conference in Surat, Gujarat, as reported by news agency ANI.
He also emphasised on the need of "uprooting the inferiority complex of languages created by the British"
"Official language and local languages will together uproot the inferiority complex of languages created by the British, time has come for that, said Shah, according to ANI.
For this, he underlined how in the National Education Policy 2020 it has been mentioned that local languages be used for primary education & education higher than that.
"We must minutely examine National Education Policy 2020, the biggest emphasis has been laid on the matter that local language be used for primary education & education higher than that. It's also mentioned that local language be used in field of research too," said the Home Minister in his speech a the event, reported ANI.
Every year Hindi Diwas is observed on September 14. The day is dedicated to the Hindi language after it was announced as the official language of the Union of India.
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, had officially declared September 14 as the Hindi Diwas.
The Constituent Assembly of India declared Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, to be the official language of the Union of India on September 14, 1949. English is the second official language.
(With ANI inputs)