RAILWAY BOARD HINDI SALAHKAR SAMITI
MEETS
The 82nd
meeting of Official Language Advisory Committee (Hindi Salahkar
Samiti) of Railway Board in the Ministry of Railways met here,
this afternoon, to take stock of progress of the use of official
language (Hindi) in various Directorates of the Railway Board
and public sector undertakings and other offices attached to it.
The Chairman, Railway
Board, Shri R.K. Singh who presided over the meeting, asked senior
officials to function as role model by working 50 per cent in
Hindi. He directed that all officials down the lane be trained
to work in Hindi by 2005. Besides, Shri Singh said that the remaining
Manuals and Codes should be translated in Hindi at the earliest
under a time bound programme to ensure that the entire workforce
were well conversant with the regulatory measures for working
all round preventive, protective and precautionary measures to
improve safety of rail services to the Nation.
Talking of the direction
of the Parliamentary Committee on Official Language, Shri Singh
urged the officials to ensure sixty five percent correspondence
within ‘A’ category (Hindi speaking) states. Shri Singh urged
all officials to implement instructions of the Government on the
use of Official Language faithfully. He also directed all public
sector undertakings of Indian Railways to achieve 50 per cent
target in noting and drafting as all of them were located in ‘A’
category states (Hindi speaking areas). He also directed senior
officials of the Railway Board that 20 per cent of them should
inspect Railway public sector undertakings at least twice in a
year.
Today’s meeting took
stock of the agenda for the current financial year on use of Official
Language in Railway Board and various public sector undertakings
and other attached and subordinate offices under it for the current
financial year, with a message that all Directorates should implement
the Official Language sincerely.
