Hindi Diwas is celebrated on September 14 every year in India to showcase the importance of the day and the language. International Hindi Day is celebrated on January 10 annually.
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Key-Points
The language was adopted under the Article 343 of the Indian Constitution.
It was on this day in 1949 that the constituent assembly adopted Hindi written in Devanagari as the official language of the country.
The first Prime Minister of the country, Jawaharlal Nehru, decided to celebrate Hindi Day on September 14.
Today, Hindi is one of the widely spoken languages in the world and the first language of more than 520 million people.
Most of the schools and colleges across the country encourage students to participate in various literary and cultural programmes like poems competitions, essays and letters writing completion in the language.
