{"id":32315,"date":"2018-10-29T13:33:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T08:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32315"},"modified":"2018-10-29T13:33:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T08:03:04","slug":"spat-over-hindi-as-official-language-at-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/spat-over-hindi-as-official-language-at-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Spat over Hindi as official language at UN\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/spat-over-hindi-as-official-language-at-un\/article22362562.ece\"><strong>Spat over Hindi as official language at UN<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday engaged in a war of words in the Lok Sabha over making Hindi one of the official languages at the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sushma cries procedure as the biggest hurdle; Tharoor says it is not the national language<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Mr. Tharoor questioned the proposed move of the government, the Minister called his statement that Hindi was mainly spoken in India as \u2018ignorant.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Member nations have to share the financial costs too<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Atleast, 129 member countries will have to agree to share the cost.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister explained that as per rules, two-thirds of the 193 members of UNwill not only have to vote for Hindi as official language but also share the financial cost incurred to do so<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Working on it\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The problem comes when apart from voting, the burden of the amount also falls on them. Economically weaker countries that support us shy away from this. We are working on it, we are making attempts to get support of countries like Fiji, Mauritius, Surinam&#8230; where people of Indian origin are there<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Question<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Tharoor, who was a high-ranking official in the UN, asked what was the need to push for Hindi when it was not even the national language of India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Officials from the South<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The question is what purpose is being served by this. If indeed we have a PM or Foreign Minister who prefers to speak in Hindi, they can do so and we can pay to get that speech translated. Why should we put our future Foreign Ministers and Prime Ministers who may be from T.N. in a difficult position<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spat over Hindi as official language at UN\u00a0 Context External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday engaged in a war of words in the Lok Sabha over making Hindi one of the official languages at the United Nations. Sushma cries procedure as the biggest hurdle; Tharoor says it is not&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/spat-over-hindi-as-official-language-at-un\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spat over Hindi as official language at UN\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704899548},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}