World Hindi Conference in Fiji to highlight links with Pacific Ocean region: MEA

Subject : International Relations

Section: Msc

Concept :

The 12th World Hindi Conference will be held in Fiji from 15 to 17 February 2023.
The official language of Fiji is Hindi.
The Government of India is taking efforts to promote Hindi and enhance its stature among the world languages.
It is also making efforts to ensure a rightful place for Hindi at the UN and the places that hosted Indian Indentured labours in the 19th century.
Currently UN provides all the important messages and press releases in Hindi. This facility is also available for Bangla and Urdu.
It was highlighted that World Hindi Conference in Fiji would also provide an opportunity to highlight the links between India and the Pacific Ocean region.
A delegation of around 270 academics, experts, and Hindi writers would participate in the upcoming conference.

About World Hindi Conference

The World Hindi Conference provides common platform to several Hindi scholars, writers and laureates from different parts of the world to contribute to the language.
It will be organised by Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India in association with Government of Mauritius.
It is organised every third year.
The first World Hindi Conference was held in 1975 in Nagpur.