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BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY
Annual Report 2004-2005
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany
Status of Official Language
The efforts to promote use of Hindi in official work
continued in earnest throughout the year. The staff
was encouraged to increase use of Hindi in official
and scientific work. The institute has been an active
member of the Nagar Rajbhasha Karyanvayan Samiti,
Lucknow (Unit 6) and was represented in its 52 nd and
53 rd half-yearly meetings. The Quarterly and Half yearly
reports to DST and NARAKAS were sent regularly.
Hindi abstracts of research papers published in
the Journal ‘The Palaeobotanist’ continue to be prepared
and published. The Annual Report is published in Hindi
also. The Newsletter of the Institute is bi-lingual. This
year, 3 scientists submitted abstracts to the International
Conference on Hindi Madhyam mein Antarrashtriya
Vaigyanik Sangoshthi held at ITRC, Lucknow. In addition,
a number of Institute scientists delivered science lectures,
published popular science articles and broadcast radio/
TV science programmes in Hindi. Some scientists were
invited to deliver lectures in science writing seminars also.
Hindi Workshop
To promote the use of Hindi, a one day Hindi
Workshop was organised on May 20, 2004 at the
Institute. Dr V.N. Tiwari from CDRI, Lucknow delivered
2 lectures dealing with various aspects of using Hindi in
official work. He also answered queries from the audience
on appropriate use of Hindi, while Institute scientist CM
Nautiyal delivered a lecture on communicating science
in Hindi.
Hindi Fortnight
The event was celebrated during September 14-
29, 2004 with enthusiasm and witnessed participation
from all sections of the staff. A ‘Kavi Sammelan’ on
15 th September had renowned poet Dr Kunwar Bechain
as the Chief Guest. Several other invited poets as well as
six institute poets regaled the audience with their poetry
till late evening. Over the fortnight, a number of
competitions were organized for the institute staff. The
winners included Dr Rashmi Srivastava and Dr Rajni
Tewari (I), Mrs Renu Srivastava and Mrs SS Rathore
(II), and Mr TK Mandal and Mr DK Pal (III) for
Antakshari; Mr Ram Ujagar (I), Mr Deepak Pandey
(II), and Mr Ajay K. Srivastava (III) for typing; Mr TK
Mandal (I), Mr DK Pal (II), and Mr Subodh Kumar
(III) for Essay Writing; and Mr Avinesh Srivastava and
Mr Pushpendra Misra (I), Mr TK Mandal (II), and
Dr Neerja Jha, Mr DK Pal and Mr Avinash Srivastava
(III) for Spot the Error. In the Quiz, the teams
comprising of Dr A Rajanikanth, Dr Rajni Tewari and
Ms Anupam Jain (I), Dr Rakesh Saxena, Mr EG Khare
and Shri Deepak Pandeya (II); Dr RR Yadav, Dr SK
Participants of ‘Kavi Sammelan’ held on 15 th September, 2004.
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