19-Aug-2018: Panini language laboratory inaugurated in Mauritius to promote Hindi.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj inaugurated "Panini Language Laboratory" at Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI) at Port Louis in Mauritius. The Lab has been gifted by the Government of India and it will help MGI in teaching of all Indian languages in Mauritius. 

Similar lab is equipped with all modern technologies and similar facilities need to be build up in India also to promote Hindi and regional languages.

The eminent scholars have stressed upon on refinement of the Hindi language by making it simple and interesting. The delegates from across the globe attending 11th World Hindi Conference in Mauritius underlined the need of developing a software for Hindi which can be available to common people on a reasonable price.

During the discussions participants suggested that besides Devanagari, scripts of foreign languages can also be used to teach Hindi in abroad. The basic objective of three-day conference is to connect Hindi language with culture to spread and popularise it in the entire world.

On the second day of the conference deliberations on relations of Culture and Language with films, media and literature were held in four sessions. Renowned Hindi lyricist, screenwriter and poet Prasoon Joshi and other eminent scholars from India and Mauritius presided over these sessions.