Indian Embassy in Kathmandu celebrates Vishwa Hindi Diwas 2023

Vishwa Hindi Diwas was celebrated on Tuesday in Indian Embassy, Kathmandu. World Hindi Day is celebrated every year to promote awareness about the language across the world. It is also the day when Hindi, India’s national language, was spoken for the first time in the United Nations General Assembly. It was on this day in 1975 that the first World Hindi Conference was held in Nagpur. Since then, such conferences are organised in different parts of the world every year.

Tribhuvan University of Nepal has the only Hindi Department in the Himalayan Nation. Students and teachers from Tribhuvan University participated in the event to promote Hindi as international language. Indian Embassy has offered Rs. 1lakh worth books to Tribhuvan University on World Hindi Diwas.

On the occasion of Vishwa Hindi Diwas, there was launch of three Hindi Books sponsored by Indian embassy. The chief guest of the event Parliamentarian Mangal Prasad Gupta member of Hindi Nepal Manch showed determination of Making Hindi as international language and making Hindi as official language in United Nation. In 2009, the Government of India actively worked to have hindi recognized as an official language of the UN. In 2015, then Nepal’s Vice President Parmanand Jha stated his firm support for the inclusion of Hindi as an official language of the UN. Noted poet Ranjana Niraula, Suman Barsha, Babu Tripathi and other recited poem on the occasion.

MahaPandit Rahul sanskrityayan samman awardee Vimlesh Kanti Verma enlightened audience about history of Hindi.

The event was marked by Hindi poetry competition among CBSE schools of Nepal, cultural event and Hindi poetry recitation by Nepali literates.