5th All India Rajbhasha Sammelan Inaugurated in Gandhinagar

Amit Shah, the Union Home Minister, opened the 5th All India Rajbhasha Sammelan in Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat on Hindi Day 2025 (14 September 2025). More than 7,000 officials in the central government departments took part in the event. Shah also insisted on respect of mother tongues but encouraged the use of Hindi language as a modern and technical language in other areas such as science, technology, policing, and justice. He emphasised that language coexistence, digitisation and creation of aids to intensify the official and technical use of Hindi was necessary. Major programmes that were initiated were the Sarathi Platform and Hindi Shabd Sindhu Kosh.

Key Points in Detail

Purpose and Theme of the Sammelan

• Marking Hindi Day 2025, a campaign to popularize Hindi in official and technical spheres.

• Intends to strike a compromise between Hindi and regional languages.

• Promotes language unity, multilingual administrative operation and cultural conservation.

Minister’s Emphasis

• Hindi as a contemporary language: Should adapt and expand into science, technology, policing and judiciary.

• Living with other regional languages: Hindi must not be in conflict with the other languages but should coexist and develop with them.

• Mother tongue conservation: The call of children and teachers to speak first languages at home and connecting a language with identity and culture.

Key Government Initiatives Launched

National Participation

• Participants: 7,000+ central government ministries and departments officials.

• Focus areas:

  • Improve inter-regional language coordination.

  • Notice board: Multilingual administrative ecosystem.

  • Increase technical vocabulary in Hindi.

  • Revise the application of the official language policies.

Significance

• National integration: Enhances linguistic dialogue in India, which respects the multilingual nature of India.

• Language tools of the future: Digitisation should make Hindi scientific, technological and digital.

• Preservation of culture: Strengthens the connection between language, identity and heritage.

Conclusion

The fifth Rajbhasha Sammelan is one of the major measures in fostering the interest of using Hindi as a modern, technical, and official language whilst taking care of the regional languages. Programmes such as Sarathi and Hindi Shabd Sindhu Kosh emphasize on government attempts to digitally modernise Hindi in the administrative, scientific and technological applications. In the case of UPSC, language policy, national integration and digital governance are evidenced in this event, indicating the connection between culture, administration and technology.