India Gives $1.169 Million For Hindi Promotion At UN

NEW YORK, NY (ANI) – The Government of India has made a whopping contribution of $1,169,746 to expand the use of Hindi promotion in the United Nations.

The ‘Hindi @ UN’ project, in collaboration with the UN Department of Public Information, was launched in 2018 with the objective of enhancing the public outreach of the United Nations in the Hindi language and spreading greater awareness about global issues among millions of Hindi-speaking people around the world.

India has been partnering with the UN Department of Global Communications since 2018 by providing an extra-budgetary contribution to mainstream and consolidate news and multimedia content of DGC in the Hindi language.

UN News in Hindi is disseminated through the UN’s website and social media handles – Twitter, Instagram, and a UN Facebook Hindi page. A UN News-Hindi audio bulletin (UN Radio) is released every week.