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Daijiworld Media Network – Sullia (SP)

Sullia, Sep 23: Dr I N Chandrashekhar Reddy, head of the department of Hindi, Tirupati Sri Venkateshwara University, wanted people involved with teaching and spreading of Hindi language to use technological tools like computers, internet and websites to spread the popularity of Hindi, our national language. He was delivering the keynote address at the two-day national workshop on Hindi organized at Nehru Memorial College here. The workshop was inaugurated on Thursday September 22.

The workshop, being held under the aegis of University Grants Commission, has ‘Use of Modern Technology Relating to Studies and Teaching Methods on Hindi in places where Hindi is not Mother Tongue’ as its subject. Reddy asserted that there is no change in the method of studying Hindi at places where Hindi is the language of the masses, and elsewhere. He wanted the hitches if any in learning Hindi in rural belts, to be done away with, with the help of modern technology.

Deputy general manager of Corporation bank, Rishipal Arora, inaugurated the workshop. “In India, where innumerable languages and cultures are found, Hindi acts as a medium to bind everyone together.  Hindi, our national language, needs to be popularized further towards achieving stability and unity,” he opined.

Vice-president of the Academy of Liberal Education, Dr K V Chidanand, presided. Retired Hindi professor from Mysore, Dr Tippeswamy, college principal, Dr K V Damodar Gowda, secretary of the academy, Paddambail Venkataramana Gowda, director of the Academy, Shobha Chidanand, and convener of the workshop, Dr H M Kumaraswamy, were present.