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To meet the target of carrying out 55 per cent of official communications in Hindi NEYVELI: The Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) has taken measures to meet the target of carrying out 55 per cent of official communications in Hindi. So far, it has achieved 40 per cent success in this regard, according to S. Jayarman, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, NLC. Mr. Jayaraman was speaking at the national seminar on “official language implementation and development in public sectors” held at the training complex here on Saturday. The NLC had been promoting Hindi language from 2000, he said. For improving spoken language skills it had organised many seminar and workshops, and as far as written communication was concerned it would comply with the Centre’s directive in a couple of years. It was trying its best to implement Hindi in file notings, drafting letters and affixing signatures. He hoped that in about three to four years, the employees would be conversant enough in Hindi to carry on the day-to-day official works. At present the NLC was adopting bi-lingual communication with the Centre and tri-lingual communication with the State, Mr. Jayaraman said. District Collector Rajendra Ratnoo narrated his experience in learning Tamil language and added that if he had acquired certain degree of fluency it was mainly because of the encouragement and cooperation received from the people here. The Collector said the Tamil culture was such that it enabled easy mingling of the people from other parts of the country and acted as a motivating factor to learn Tamil in quick time. Mr. Ratnoo said the compatriots elsewhere should also emulate and imbibe such an attitude and facilitate learning of other languages in a similar fashion. Amjad Ali Khan, retired general manager of the Bharat Earth Movers Ltd, Bangalore, and also Hindi tutor for the MPs, said the Hindi should be taught at the grassroots level. He underscored the point that in terms of antiquity and richness all Indian languages were superior to foreign languages, but the craze for English had overshadowed it. Though he did not decry learning of English, he pointed out that it was a sin to neglect the national languages. P. Babu Rao, NLC Director (Personnel), lauded the trade union leaders for their cooperation in the Hindi campaign because they realised that it was a vital tool in the dialogue with the Centre. K.S. Anandan, Director (Mines), said the employees were showing keen interest in mastering Hindi.
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