III : GRANTS TO VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS WORKING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HINDI
During the year under review, the following grants have been sanctioned to voluntary organisations and individuals for the purpose, indicated separately against each:
Name of Organisation Amount Purpose of Grant
Rs.
(i) Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, 29,572 Promotion of Hindi
Prayag
(ii) Hindustani Prachar Sabha,7,920 Propagation and development of
Bombay Hindi
(iii) Kerala Hindi Prachar 4,200 Purchase of furniture and
Sabha Trivandrum book for Hindi Library at
Trivandrum
(iv) Karnatak Provincial Hindi 12,345 (i) Running of Hindi classes
Prachar Sabha, Dharwar 2,400 and libraries
(ii) For staging Hindi dramas
(v) Vidarbha Hindi Sahitya 6,600 Hindi library, collection and
Sammelan, Nagpur editing of old Hindi
manuscripts. and Organisation
of lectures and dramas
(vi) Rashtrabhasha Prachar 11,500 (i) For holding 10th session
Samiti, Wardha All-India Rashtrabhasha
Prachar Sammelan in Assam
(ii) Purchase of books for
Central Library, training of
Hindi. teachers
(iii) Literary and cultural
competitions
(vii) Bombay Provincial
Rashtrabhasha 6,300 Purchase of books for Hindi
Prachar Sabha, Bom- Library-
bay (ii) Rashtrabhasha Shibirs
(iii) Competitions, prizes
and other cultural activities
(viii) Institution of Engi-
neers 500 President's prize for 1960-61
(India), Calcutta to Shri Baleshwar Nath of
the-Institute
(ix) Nagari Pracharini
Sabha, 10,000 (i) Search of old manuscripts
Varanasi (ii) Photo-stat machines
(iii) For preserving and
binding old manuscripts.
(x) Sansadeeya Hindi
Parishad, 13,922 Propagation and development
New Delhi 7,356 of Hindi
1,440
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Name of Organisation Amount Purpose of Grant
(xi) Maharashtra Rashtrabhasha 5,400 Do.
Prachar Samiti, Poona
(xii) Gujarat Prantiya Rashtra- 00 Purchase of books, and
bhasha Prachar Samiti, Ah- furniture for library,
medabad Rashtrabhasha Shibirs
and competition and
prizes
(xiii) Kerala Grandhasala San- 30,660 Starting Hindi wings in
gam, Trivandrum 50 libraries
(ii) Allowances for
librarians
(iii) Celebration of
Hindi Day.
(iv) Addition of Hindi
section in magazine
(xiv) Vidarbha Rashtrabhasha 6,240 Purchase of books and
prachar Samiti furniture for Central
Library
(ii) Rashtrabhasha Shibirs
(iii)Competition,prizes
and other cultural
activities
(xv) Assom Rashtrabhasha Pra- 43,500 Improvement of Prachar
char Samiti,Gauhati Vidyalaya and Central
Library
(ii)Development of
rural libraries and
publication of Hindi
journals etc.
(xvi) Shri Lakshmi Nath Jha, 8,000 Publication of a book
Artist, (Bihar) on folk art of Mithila
sanctioned from Edu-
cation Minister's Dis-
cretionary Fund
(xvii) Dakshin Bharat Hindi Pra- 15,000 Holding of Hindi dramas
char Sabha, Madras (ii) Organisation of
lectures of Hindi orators
and poets
(iii) Reinforcement of
Central Hind Library
(xviii) Maharashtra Rashtrabhasha 3,000 Development of the Central
Sabha, Poona Hindi Library at Poona
(xix) Mysore Riyasat Hindi Pra- 20,000 Construction of school bui-
char Samiti, Bangalore-4 lding
(xx) Dakshin Bharat Hindi Pra- 10,000 Construction of office bui-
Char Sabha, Andhra, Hyderabad lding
------------Parishad, 5,916 Publication of 'Devnagari'
New --- journal
----------------at Hindi Pra- 5,400 Conducting free Hindi
char Sabha (Kerala), Ernaku- classes and running Hindi
lam shorthand and typewriting
classes
(xxiii) Secretary, Institute of
Engineers (India) Calcutta 2,000 Publication of enlarged
Hindi section of the
journal of the Institute
(xxiv) Delhi University, Delhi 4,000 Publication of Sindhi
textbooks in Devanagari
script
(xxv) Hindustani Prachar Sabha, 3,096 (i) Hindi Prachar expenses
Bombay including' Prachar Puraskars
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Name of Organisation Amount Purpose of Grant
(xxvi) Advaita Ashram, Almora c/o 5,000 Publication of complete
Advaita Ashram, Calcutta works of Swami Vivekananda
(xxvii) Maharashtra Prachar
Samiti,Poona 11,434 (i) Opening free Hindi
teaching centres
(ii) Holding five semin-
ars
(iii)Expansion of Central
Library
(iv) Prizes for students
(xxviii) Tanur Sanchara Grandha- 900 (i) Hindi dramas
laya Samiti, Tanur (Kerala) (ii) Purchase of furniture
for library and Hindi
classes
(xxix) Kerala Hindi Prachar Sabha, 1,800 Development of Hindi
Trivandrum library
(xxx) Rashtrabhasha Prachar Sam-
iti,Wardha 4,500 Holding 10th Session at
Tinsukhia (Assam)
(xxxi) Kendriya Sachivalaya Hindi 540 Holding competitions for
Hindi Parishad, New Delhi
typewriting and shorthand
(xxxii) Hindi Sahitya Kala
Parishad, Port Blair 9,000 Construction of Hindi
Bhawan at Port Blair
(xxxiii) Hindi Bhawan, New Delhi 2,115 Promotion of Hindi
Besides, financial assistance has also bean given to the authors of 'Bhartiya Vyavhar Kosh' and 'Maithilisharan Gupta Abhinandan Granth' by purchasing 1,700 and 300 Copies respectively of these Hindi publications for free distribution to various States, universities, colleges, Hindi organisations etc. An expenditure of Rs. 61,000 (approximately) is likely to be incurred.