Hindi Diwas

September 14, 2023

Hindi Diwas or the National Hindi Day is celebrated every year in India on September 14 to mark the day of adoption of Hindi as the official language by the Constituent Assembly of India in 1949.
Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, was adopted as the official language of the Republic of India on 14th September, 1949.
Besides Hindi, English is the other official language (Article 343 of the Constitution).
Officially, the first Hindi Day was celebrated on September 14, 1953.
Hindi is an eighth schedule language of the 22 officially recognized Indian languages.
Article 351 pertains to ‘Directive for development of the Hindi language’.