NALCO celebrates Viswa Hindi Diwas

13/01/2020

Bhubaneswar,13/01/20: Vishwa Hindi Divas (World Hindi Divas) is being celebrated every year on January 10, to commemorates the anniversary of the first World Hindi Conference held in Nagpur. Navratna CPSE, National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), also joined the nation to celebrate the Viswa Hindi Diwas at its Units and Offices on January 10, with a view to promote the use of Hindi as official language.

As part of the week-long celebration, the Aluminium major organised various competitions in Hindi, including essay writing, noting, and poster competition etc from 3^rd January. Employees and their family members actively participated in these completions. At the concluding day function held today at corporate office, a skit ‘Koun Kitne Pani Main’ was staged. The winners of the various competitions, were also awarded on the occasion. Shri Sridhar Patra, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, NALCO, graced the concluding day ceremony as the Chief Guest, and handed over the prizes to the winners in various competitions in presence of Shri V. Balasubramanyam, Director (Production), Shri Sanjib Kumar Roy, Director (P&T), and Shri Radhashyam Mahapatro, Director (HR).

Expressing their views on the occasion of World Hindi Divas, the distinguished guests encouraged and advised all employees to do some day to day work in Hindi. To mark the occasion, the in-house Hindi e-magazine ‘Akshar’ was also released.