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Importance of Hindi stressed

KADAPA: Hindi played a key role in the freedom movement by acting as a link between people of various States, G. Padmaja Devi, Head of Department of Hindi in Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, said on Monday.

Addressing the valedictory function of the Hindi fortnight in the LIC divisional office here, she said Mahatma Gandhi advocated wearing of khadi clothes, spinning the charkha and learning of Hindi language during the freedom movement. Telugu-speaking persons could learn Hindi without much difficulty as 75 per cent of the dialects were similar. LIC was conducting its office correspondence in Hindi ever since the language was recognised as national language on September 14, 1950, she said.

LIC senior divisional manager A.V.N. Kumar presided and personnel manager R. Satyanarayana and official language officer H.R. Rehman also spoke. LIC Employees Union leader B.V.S. Raju participated. Prizes were given away to winners of Hindi poetry, essay writing and elocution, translation, quiz, typing, singing and joke reciting competitions conducted by LIC.

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