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14 September: Hindi Diwas

  • 14 Sep 2022

Hindi Diwas is celebrated on 14th September.

  • The day also marks the birthday of Beohar Rajendra Simha who played a crucial role in getting Hindi in Devanagari script approved as an official language of India. He was born on 14 September 1916.
  • Hindi is the third highest spoken language globally after English and Mandarin with over 65 crore speakers worldwide.
  • On September 14, 1949, the Constituent Assembly declared Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, as India’s official language. To mark the significant date, India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru declared the day as Hindi Diwas.
  • The Constituent Assembly’s decision was later legalised in the Constitution on January 26, 1950.