Work finished by officers in Hindi to be taken on document for evaluation, says Southern Railway

The Southern Railway has requested its officers to take “most” efforts to make use of Hindi of their official work.

Launching a particular drive from August 14 to September 15, to advertise utilization of Hindi, the Deputy General Manager (Official Language), Suresh Chandra, stated the work finished by officers throughout the interval could be taken up for evaluation and document functions.

Directing the officers to test the implementation of Hindi throughout departmental inspections and embrace the progress made of their report, he stated they might give dictations in Hindi and in addition make small noting like ‘sanctioned’, ‘agreed’, ‘accepted’ within the official language.

A Southern Railway spokesperson stated the round was a part of the routine directions given to advertise Hindi as an official language. Parrying questions on linking of the progress made in utilization of Hindi by an officer to his/her evaluation or appraisal, one other senior railway officer stated utilizing Hindi as a medium of communication, together with oral directions, letter correspondence and inspection stories, was solely an advisory to advertise the language in tune with nationwide coverage and never necessary on non-Hindi talking States like Tamil Nadu.

The Government of India, in its annual programme (2025-26) for transacting the official work of the union in Hindi stated using Hindi in authorities places of work was progressively rising however substantial enterprise was nonetheless being finished in English. The goal of the ‘Official Language’ coverage was that usually Hindi be utilized in all authorities enterprise to the utmost extent potential. This could be consistent with the spirit of the Constitution. “Needless to say that doing official work within the peoples’ language will speed-up growth and convey transparency in administration.”

Southern Railway covers the States of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and a small portion of Andhra Pradesh. All these States come below Region ‘C’ of the demarcation of States/Union Territories by the Union authorities finished on the idea of prevalence of spoken and written Hindi language.