APPENDIX E-- REPORT ON THE WORK DONE IN CONNECTION WITH THE PREPARATION OF SCIENTIFIC TERMINOLOGY IN HINDI AND PROPAGATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF HINDI
A Board of Scientific Terminology was set up in 1950. It has by now formed 11 Expert Committees for various Technical and Science 8subjects. Under the guidance and supervision of the Board, Provisional lists of Technical Terms in Hindi for Secondary schools, relating to Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Botany and Social Sciences have been printed. These lists have been circulated to State Governments, universities, important scientific institutions, learned bodies and individuals for comments. These comments will be carefully considered before the terms are finalized by the Board. Similar lists relating to other Sciences are under preparation.
2. The preparation of these terms sometimes involved consider- able difficulty, for the assignation of the terms to specific groups occasionally involved overlapping and gave rise to doubts or arbitrary selection. Nevertheless, it is hoped that, on the whole, these related groups of terms will serve the purpose.
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3. A beginning has also been made in regard to the preparation of the Hindi-English vocabularies, those in Physics being almost complete.
4. With regard to the development of Hindi and its popularisation in non-Hindi speaking areas, the following steps have been taken:-
(i) A grant of Rs. 10,000 was paid during the year 1952-53 to the Akhil Bhartiya Hindi Parishad, New Delhi for starting a training school of Hindi teachers at Agra. The school has been functioning since August 1952 and most of the students admitted to this school come form non-Hindi speaking States.
(ii) Another grant of Rs. 15,000 was paid in the same year to the Sansadeeya Hindi Parishad (Hindi Association of Parliament) for the promotion of Hindi.
(iii) A further sum of Rs. 5,000 has been paid to the Mysore Riyasat Hindi Prachar Samiti, Bangalore, for the propagation of Hindi. k3 (iv) A grant of Rs. 10,000 was given to Sahityakar Sansad, Allahabad during 1952-53 with a view to helping needy authors of Hindi.
(v) Prizes worth Rs. 29,000 have been offered for the best books in Hindi, both original works as well as translations. These prizes are to be awarded for books published before 31st December 1952. The books submitted for these awards are being examined by the committees of judges appointed by the Government.
(vi) In 1952 Hindi classes for non-Hindi knowing Central Government employees were started at three centres in New Delhi with three teachers. During 1953 additional classes have been opened under a Principal and nine additional teachers.
5. The Library, which has been set up in the Hindi Section of the Ministry of Education has now a collection of approximately 2,700 books. It subscribes to 28 periodicals.