SHILLONG: The parliamentary committee on official language has advocated the need to make Hindi the official language of the country at the earliest.
Prasanna Kumar Patasani, member of a sub-committee of the House panel that visited Shillong on Friday for inspection, said Chinese is spoken only in China but Hindi is spoken in many parts of the world, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bangladesh and Fiji.
This comes less than a month after the Centre, in a media statement, said it would not impose Hindi on non-Hindi speakers.
Patasani pointed out that only 1 per cent of the population speaks English while 98 per cent speak Hindi. “Hindi language binds and unites all,” he added.
The committee met the officials of Power Grid, Doordarshan Kendra in Shillong and the central water commission. It inspected the implementation of Hindi as official language in these organisations.
