(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
India has contributed USD 800,000 to the United Nations as part
of the initiative to enhance public outreach of the organisation in
Hindi, Trend reports citing NDTV .
Country's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations,
R Ravindra handed over a cheque for the UN project launched by
India in 2018 to disseminate information about the UN to the
Hindi-speaking population across the world.
'The Government of India has been making continuous efforts to
expand the use of Hindi in the United Nations. As part of these
efforts, 'Hindi @ UN' project, in collaboration with the UN
Department of Public Information was launched in 2018 with an
objective to enhance the public outreach of the United Nations in
Hindi language, and to spread greater awareness about global issues
among millions of Hindi-speaking people around the world,' the UN
said in a statement.
India has been partnering with the UN Department of Global
Communications (DGC) since 2018 by providing an extra-budgetary
contribution to mainstream and consolidate news and multimedia
content of DGC in Hindi, it added. Since 2018, the UN News in Hindi
is disseminated through the UN's website and social media handles
and a UN Facebook Hindi page, the statement read further.
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