ELECTRO-MECHANICAL FACILITIES AND THE OFFICIAL ...

BILINGUAL FACILITIES ON COMPUTERS
In this electronic age computers are being used extensively. Compliance of the
Official Language policy requires that they should be bilingual, so that work done in
Hindi could be done bilingually. Most of the computers installed in Government
offices have either MS-Windows or UNIX/UNIX variants as operating systems. Any
work being done in English on them can also be done in Hindi. Some operating
systems can now be customized to provide all-Hindi interface including dialog boxes
and start menu.
The nature of work done using desk-top computers can be generically classified as for
one of the following: -
(i) Word Processing
(ii) Spread Sheets
(iii) Database
(iv) Presentations
(v) E-mail client
(vi) Authoring web pages
(vii) Browsing/ E-mail etc.,
(viii) Customised software or in-house developed software like Personnel
Management System, Recruitment System etc., used for generation of payslips,
GPF Account Statement etc.,
Now a days, most of the computers are connected to Local Area Network (LAN) or
Wide Area Network (WAN). Being part of a network helps these systems to share
resources like storage, printers etc.,
A number of bilingual Word Processing Packages for Computers are available in the
market. Word processors have various features like margin setting, page
header/footer, search/replace words, spell check, Hindi equivalent of English words,
mail merge, transliteration (between Indian Scripts), tabulation, attributes sorting etc.
Information regarding these word processors/other software’s and their
manufacturers/vendors are given on following pages.