Mangaluru : Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala stressed the need for translation of southern regional language literary works, including Kannada, into Hindi so as to spread the rich literary heritage of these languages across the country.

He was speaking at the inauguration of southern and south western regional official language convention here on Friday in Mangaluru. While Hindi unites the country, regional languages strengthen respective regions, he maintained. Congratulating the Union government for making continuing efforts to spread Hindi across the country, Mr. Vala noted that it did not mean the government is against regional languages. A healthy combination of the both would make strong India, he maintained.

A nation should have one flag, one emblem, one anthem and one language, Hindi perfectly fits as the national language, Mr. Vala said.

On the occasion, several Central government departments, organisations and employees were felicitated for their effort to spread Hindi in their official call.

Secretary of Department of Official Language Sneh Lata Kumari presided.

Poonam Junaid and Malai Chatterjee of Rajbhasha Vibhag, Vijaykumar of Corportation Bank, KIOCL Chairman Malay Chatterjee and others were present.