The 9th World Hindi Conference, WHC will be held in South African city Johannesburg from 22 to 24 of September this year. The main theme of the conference is Bhasha Ki Asmita Aur Hindi Ka Vaishvik Sandarbh. An official release says that a Steering Committee headed by the Minister of State for External Affairs Mrs Preneet Kaur, has been constituted to deliberate on various aspects of the conference. An organizing committee has also been formed in South Africa headed by Indian High Commissioner Virendra Gupta for coordinate. Hindi Shiksha Sangh a voluntary Hindi organization in South Africa is the local partner for the conference. Nine academic sessions, cultural programmes and exhibitions on various aspects of Hindi including IT applications in the field of Hindi will be organised during the conference. An exhibition on the life and works of Mahatma Gandhi will also be shown.
Our correspondent adds that organisation of World Hindi Conferences began more than three decades ago when the 1st World Hindi Conference was held in Nagpur in January, 1975 under the aegis of Rashtrabhasha Prachar Samiti, Wardha. In all, eight World Hindi Conferences have been held so far in different countries including India, Mauritius,Trinidad and Tobago United Kingdom , Suriname and USA.