Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has written a letter to PM Modi and has asserted that English should be medium of communication on Govt. social networking sites.The DMK chief M Karunanidhi had condemned MHA’s orde and said "The Prime Minister should focus on development rather than on promoting Hindi.”
The Home Ministry's official language department had issued a circular on May 27 asking all Ministries and Departments, public sector undertakings and banks to give prominence to Hindi on official accounts in social media.Another circular announced prize money of Rs 2,000 to two employees who do their official work mostly in Hindi. Rs 1,200 and Rs 600 will be given to the second and third position holders respectively.
Watch:The Big Fight over language (C'tsy NDTV)
We aren't giving less importance to regional languages, this is an unnecessary controversy: Kiren Rijiju (MoS Home) pic.twitter.com/uIljJo5BsQ
— ANI (@ANI_news) June 19, 2014
The Home Ministry's official language department had issued a circular on May 27 asking all Ministries and Departments, public sector undertakings and banks to give prominence to Hindi on official accounts in social media.Another circular announced prize money of Rs 2,000 to two employees who do their official work mostly in Hindi. Rs 1,200 and Rs 600 will be given to the second and third position holders respectively.
Watch:The Big Fight over language (C'tsy NDTV)
