Hindi Diwas

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 15, Sep 2021

1. Hindi Diwas is celebrated on September 14 every year
2. It aims to raise awareness about the language and also commemorate the event when it was adopted as one of the official languages of India.
3. The Constituent Assembly of India had, on 14 Sep1949, recognised and adopted Hindi — an Indo-Aryan language written in the Devanagari script — as the official language of the country.
4. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India.
5. It is also on this day that the President of the country felicitates people for their contribution to Hindi language and literature.
6. In India alone, there are roughly about 43.6 per cent speakers, who identify Hindi as their mother tongue — according to the 2011 census.