विश्व हिन्दी सचिवालय (World Hindi Secretariat) | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Independence Street, Phoenix, Mauritius |
| Official language | Hindi |
| Membership | |
| Leaders | |
| Establishment | |
• World Hindi Conference Nagpur | 1975 |
• Memorandum of Understanding | 20 August 1999 |
| Population | |
• 2017 estimate | ~ 400 million (primary language)[1] |
Website vishwahindi.com | |
World Hindi Secretariat (WHS), (Hindi: विश्व हिन्दी सचिवालय, romanized: Viśva Hindī Sacivālaya), is an international organisation of nations and regions where Hindi is the first or customary language with significant proportion of population consisting of Hindi speakers and/or with notable affiliation with North Indian culture. WHS is focused on promoting Hindi as an international language and furthering the cause of recognition of Hindi as an official language of the United Nations. India has been trying to get 129 votes at the United Nations to make Hindi an official language of the UN.[2] WHS is head quartered at Vacoas-Phoenix city in Plaines Wilhems District of Mauritius.
WHA was set up in 1999 by governments of India and Mauritius to promote Hindi across the world, Vinod Bala Arun became was the first secretary-general of WHS.[3]
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- ^ "India Trying to Get 129 Votes to Get Hindi as UN Language: Sushma Swaraj". Archived from the original on 20 April 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ^ "World Hindi Secretariat". Indiahighcom-mauritius.org. Archived from the original on 23 December 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2015.