ICAR-CIBA, Chennai celebrated Hindi Week during 14 – 20 September 2021 to promote use of Hindi as official language. During the week, Hindi noting, drafting, translation, singing and quiz competitions were organized. Dr. K.P. Jithendran, Director, CIBA, released the 7th issue of annual Hindi magazine “Jal Tarang”, inaugurated ‘Saransh’ digital notice board with dedicated television for display of Hindi word and distributed the prizes to the winners under Hindi incentive schemes during valedictory function held on 20 September, 2021. In his address, the Director remarked the linguistic diversity of India and importance of Hindi in communicating across nation. He mentioned that Hindi cell is publishing Hindi version of CIBA Annual Report which has contributed in winning the ICAR’s best annual report award for the year 2019. Dr. Sujeet Kumar, Scientist and Officer In-Charge of Official language Implementation Committee (OLIC) presented the work carried out by the Hindi cell at the institute. Shri. R.K. Babu, Finance and Account Officer and member, OLIC expressed happiness in increasing participation at the institute by the scientists, officers and students in Hindi competitions. The program was coordinated by Dr. A.K. Panigrahi, Dr. Suvana Sukumaran and Mrs. Misha Soman, Scientists of the institute.
Similarly, Hindi Pakhwada was celebrated at KRC of CIBA, Kakdwip, West Bengal during 08 – 22 September, 2021 to encourage the use of Hindi in Official and Scientific works. In this connection, various competitions such as singing, quiz and extempore were conducted among the KRC-staffs. Dr. Debasis De, Officer In-Charge, KRC of CIBA highlighted the benefits of using Hindi in official work during valedictory function held on 22nd September.
