Strengthening Hindi as the national language would help promote and boost national unity, Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala said here today.
Efforts should be made to translate regional works into Hindi, he said addressing the Joint Regional and Official Language Conference of South and West regions, organized by the department of official languages under the home ministry, at Hotel Ocean Pearl here.
South India was a Ganga of knowledge where great thinkers and scholars had made great contributions to the languages of Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. These works should be translated into Hindi so that the people of the entire nation could read them, he said.
Learning Hindi was equally important as learning English he said adding that the Constitution had accepted Hindi as the national language.
The convention was meant to promote the Hindi language, Snehalatha Kumari of Rajbhasha Vibhag who presided over the programme said. Hindi was an easy and effective language and was linked with the tradition and culture of our people. Poonam Junaid and Malai Chatterjee of Rajbhasha Vibhag were among those present on the occasion.
