Act Number: 3

Act Name: The Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya Act, 1996

Year: 1997

Enactment Date: 1997-01-08

Long Title: An Act to establish and incorporate a teaching University for the promotion and development of Hindi language and literature, through teaching and research, with a view to enabling Hindi to achieve greater functional efficiency and recognition as a major international language and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development

Department: Department of Higher Education

Section 4: Objects of the University.
    The objects of the University shall be to promote and develop Hindi language and literature in general and, for that purpose, to provide for instructional and research facilities in the relevant branches of learning; to provide for active pursuit of comparative studies and research in Hindi and other Indian languages; to create facilities for development and dissemination of relevant information in the country and abroad; to offer programmes of Research, Education and Training in areas like translation, interpretation and linguistics for improving the functional effectiveness of Hindi; to reach out to Hindi scholars and groups interested in Hindi abroad and to associate them in teaching and research and to popularize Hindi through distance education system.
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