Rajbhasha Gaurav Puraskar Scheme for writing original book in Hindi

The scheme “Rajbhasha Gaurav Puraskar Scheme for Writing Original Books in Hindi” has been launched by the Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, to encourage writing original books in Hindi and to promote the official language. Under the scheme, the citizens of India will be awarded as follows: - Rajbhasha Gaurav Puraskar for writing an original book in Hindi on Engineering, Electronics, Computer Science, Physics, Biology, Energy, Space Science, Medicine, Chemistry, Information Technology, Management, Psychology and contemporary topics like Liberalisation, Globalisation, Consumerism, Human Rights, Pollution. - Rajbhasha Gaurav Puraskar for writing original books in Hindi on the subjects of Law and Police Research, Forensic Science, criminology, police administration, etc. - Rajbhasha Gaurav Puraskar for writing an original book in Hindi on subjects related to Culture, Religion, Arts and Heritage, etc. - Rajbhasha Gaurav Puraskar for writing original books in Hindi by the author of the 'C' region (on the subjects of all the above categories). - Rajbhasha Gaurav Puraskar for books translated in Hindi - For translated books on classics and subjects related to culture, art, and heritage. > Objective: (A) In various ministries/departments/offices/undertakings/banks, etc. of the central government, official work is also undertaken on technical subjects. Due to a lack of books on subjects like technical, science, judicial science, police, criminology research, police administration, culture, religion, arts, heritage, etc., and law, there is a difficulty in increasing the use of Hindi in official work. In addition, due to being less familiar with or not familiar with the Hindi vocabulary of these subjects, personnel face difficulties in doing official work in Hindi. (B) A new category is being included to encourage original writing in Hindi by authors of the 'C' region. (C) In addition, translation is an important means of disseminating knowledge and literature in English and scheduled Indian languages to the Hindi-speaking community. In the past years, many good translated books have also been received, which could not be included due to not having an award in this category. The vision of the Honourable Home Minister is to increase coordination between Indian languages and Hindi. Hence, a new category of books translated from English and other Indian languages into Hindi is being included under these awards. Thus, with the objective of promoting original book writing and excellent translated works in Hindi on the above subjects, the Department of Official Language has initiated this scheme. (D) Only the Department of Official Language has been made the nodal department for different award schemes related to Hindi at the national level by various Ministries / Departments of the Central Government. It shall be mandatory to consult the Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, before launching any other award scheme related to Hindi by any Ministry / Department in future so that repetition of the award scheme may be avoided.