Joint regional Rajbhasha conference in Agartala on Feb 20; to be inaugurated by the Union Home Minister

A Joint Regional Rajbhasha Conference for the North-Eastern and Northern regions will be held on Friday, 20 February 2026, under the initiative of the Department of Rajbhasha under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The conference, to be held at the International Indoor Exhibition Centre in Hapania, Agartala, will be inaugurated by Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah. The inaugural session will begin at 2:00 PM.

Senior officials from Central Government offices, banks and organizations of the Eastern Region (West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand), the North-Eastern Region (Tripura, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim) and the Northern Region (Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh) will participate in this joint conference.

At the conference, regional awards for the year 2024–25 (a total of 80 awards) will be presented to offices, banks and organizations of the above regions that have demonstrated outstanding performance in the use of the Rajbhasha of the Central Government. At the same time, selected City Official Language Implementation Committees will be honoured with the ‘NARAKAS Official Language Award’.

Exhibition stalls will be set up at the venue by various banks, literary organizations and other institutions, where new innovations and activities related to the Official Language will be showcased. A yoga session is also being organized for the officials on 19 February from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Under the guidance of experienced yoga instructors, this session will include simple yoga postures, pranayama and stress-management exercises, so that participants can remain more focused, active and balanced in their daily work.

Following the vision of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to promote better coordination between Hindi and other Indian languages, a digital platform named ‘BHARATI – Multilingual Translation Sarathi’ has been developed. It has been designed to reduce the linguistic gap between Hindi and the 15 Indian languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.

According to the Constitution Official Language of the Central Government, that is, the Rajbhasha, is Hindi and its script is Devanagari. Therefore, with the objective of promoting the increasing use of Hindi in the administrative functions of the Central Government, the Department of Official Language under the Ministry of Home Affairs was established as an independent department on 26 June 1975.