The Indian government has contributed over a million dollars to the Hindi @ UN project to expand the use of Hindi at the United Nations (UN).
The government of India has been making continuous efforts to expand the use of Hindi in the UN. As part of these efforts, the Hindi @ UN project, in collaboration with the UN Department of Public Information, was launched in 2018 with the objective of enhancing the public outreach of the UN in Hindi and to spread greater awareness about global issues among millions of Hindi-speaking people around the world, according to a press release from India’s permanent mission to the UN, New York.
India has been partnering with the UN Department of Global Communications (DGC) since 2018 by providing an extra-budgetary contribution to mainstream and consolidate news and multimedia content of DGC in the Hindi language, the release added.
“Since 2018, the UN News in Hindi is disseminated through the UN’s website and social media handles—Twitter, Instagram, and a UN Facebook Hindi page. A UN News-Hindi audio bulletin (UN Radio) is released every week.”
Its weblink is available at the UN Hindi News website, as well as at the Soundcloud UN News-Hindi.
The funding comes a year after a similar contribution toward the expansion of usage of the Hindi language in the UN.
With 50,000 current followers on Twitter, 29,000 on Instagram, and 15,000 on Facebook, UN Hindi social media accounts publish nearly 1,000 posts every year. The Hindi UN News website receives 1.3 million annual impressions.
