Central Hindi Directorate

The  Central Hindi Directorate was set up in March 1960 as a subordinate office of the Ministry of Education. The Directorate has since been implementing a number of schemes for the promotion and development of Hindi.

The Department of Correspondence Courses of Central Hindi Directorate is implementing the scheme of Teaching Hindi as a second and foreign language to non-Hindi speaking Indians and foreigners. So far 3.35 lakhs (Approx.) persons have benefited under this scheme. Teaching of Hindi has also been established through Cassettes which are prepared by the Correspondence Courses Department of Central Hindi Directorate.

Under the Scheme of Publication, the sub-schemes, viz., foreign language dictionary, bilingual/trilingual/New dictionaries, Bhasha, Varshiki and Sahitya Mala, exhibition and free distribution of Hindi books are operated. Other publications include Hindi-Indonesian dictionary and conversational guides on Hindi-Tamil, Malayalam-Hindi and those on Hindi-Malayalam and Bangla-Hindi, Hindi-Czech.

The scheme of award and prizes to Hindi authors helps to popularise Hindi in non-Hindi speaking states. Under the scheme of ‘Services and Programmes‘ different schemes relating to promotion and development of Hindi are carried out.