Dated Sep 21, 1999
Times of India

LONDON: The world Hindi Conference asked India's political leaders and diplomats to ensure that Hindi was recognized as one of the official languages of the United Nations.

The conference urged the government of India to ensure that Hindi was developed as a language friendly to computers and communications and to developments and education in science and technology. India's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) demonstrated on this occasion its successful Indian language software products. This pioneering initiative paved the way for making Hindi and other Indian languages suitable for the Internet.

This demonstration was in tune with the theme of the conference, "Hindi and the future generations," since without this work by C-DAC, Hindi and other languages would have been lost to them. This software eliminates language barriers and brings the benefit of computers to the common man, not conversant with English. These languages can now be used for all applications on a wide range of platforms.

The former Hon'ble Minister for External Affairs Smt. Vasundhara Raje Scindia inaugurated the conference.

(Highlights from the article by L. K. Sharma)