Should Hindi be the official language of India?

Hi Everyone.

I think Hindi should be the official language because many of us speak in Hindi as well as we understand. Compare to other regional or an International language most of us get hesitation to communicate with the people who live in the same country. Most of the schools and colleges are teaching in English. Why? we have our own language but we don't give priority. British has gone but they left their language to make it world wide and we are following on their footstep.

Hello, everyone.

This is Md Samirul from Mechanical stream, Jamia Millia Islamia.

I would like to take the initiative to initiate this GD.

In India, around 44% of people can speak and understand Hindi. But we have to need to know also how many languages we lost to make this much of a percentage.

What happens with the Bhojpuri, what happens with the Maithili, Marwari, Haryanvi, Rajasthani, Surjapuri and many more languages and many more dialects of the language we lost to achieve this figure of Hindi. We should not forget one thing"Lost of language is lost of culture". India is a diverse country wherein every part and corner is a different culture and different language besides.

In India, there are 107M Bengali speakers, 99M Marathi, 94M Telugu, 77M Tamil, 60M Gujrati, 62M Urdu, 52M Kannada, 42M odia, 35M Malayalam, 36M Punjabi, 23M Assamese what about this person? Apart from this, we have seven sisters (North East) who have their language and culture and where many tribes lives. So we need to think about all of them.

But in these, all one thing in common you know what is that?

That is 'English '. India 🇮🇳 is already the world's 2nd largest English speaking nation and still, this number is increasing day by day that day is not far away when we will be on TOP. If you will go to any part of India then you can easily communicate if know English and apart from this our academic curriculum follows in English, even government release any notice/guidelines or something is in English, his/her tweets are in English even as releases in English, the Indian judiciary system follow English.

There are many points/reasons on which we can easily say that English will National language. And this will opens the door to many more opportunities for us. Every person around the world 🌎 can work with us and we can work with them easily without any language barriers.

Like this, there is no valid point with Hindi.

Even those 40% of Hindi speakers don't speak pure Hindi, in their sentences 50% of words are from Urdu and other languages.

Then how can we consider Hindi an official language or a National Language?

There should be no official language of India as there is no official sport of the country.

In my view, English is already filling the void of the common language connecting north and the south. It has been secondary or tertiary language in administration behind the official language of many states.

Moreover, Hindi does not represent the entire country but only north. So Hindi or any other language doesn't have a right to be the official language for such a diverse country as India.

According to my view, English should be the official language of India because nowadays all the official work, interviews, are based on English language there is no use of Hindi and English medium school are also increasing in number in the comparison of Hindi medium school it is true that Hindi realise India's rich history or culture but if we talk about development it is important than culture so many peoples are saying that Hindi is easy to understand and speak, this is the basic problem of Indians that they don't want to try something hard in their life they want everything easy for them the last but not the least English should be the official language of India.

Thanks.

My opinion is that conflict and disunity occurs if Hindi or any other Language of India is declared as official language. If English is declared as the official language there would be no reason of conflict and unity can be maintained among other states as well as English will be proposed as a must language to be learnt which helps us to develop a prosperous country.

Hindi should be treated as an official language, not to degrade or disrespect any other language. It's just that if we belong to Hindustan and we visit any other state of the same motherland why speak in English as a medium of conversation and is definitely not possible to learn every local language but Hindi should become a means to connect every heart of all brothers and sisters of a Nation, of a mother of INDIA.

I believe India is the mixture of different cultures. In India there are different religions peoples are living. Language is just a way to communicate with other people and that man should understand what he wants to speak. We can't force to those who don't know the Hindi language. Most of the peoples knew the Hindi language but nowadays, English is much important for the job or to maintain foreign relations.

Of course, 100percent without any doubt Hindi should be the official language of India. Because it is the only language which is commonly spoken by every person of this country. From the north to south and east to west people are able to understand this language. Even an illiterate person can easily understand this. And this is official language means. Which is understand and spoken by every person which lead forward all the sections of society come together. Moreover, English as a second language must be promoted to move with the world. HINDI as an official language does not mean we should ignore other ones. Each language has its own place.

Hello Friends,

I feel that the Hindi language could have been an official language if everyone is speaking Hindi in India. India has 22 official languages. According to Census of India, the total number of mother tongues spoken in India is 1652. However, only around 150 languages have a sizable speaking population. The Indian census of 1961 recognised 1, 652 different languages in India (including languages not native to the subcontinent).

With these statistics, if we make Hindi as an official language then Indian citizen will only suffer.

Thanks.

Why not?

If we can adopt a foreign language English; why do we hesitate to learn another language of our motherland.

India is a multicultural and diverse nation. We all are aware of it. But I don't find any problem in making hindi as national language. Having a national language would give a sense of pride to us.