R. Ravindra, charge d'affaires of the Permanent Mission of India, handed over the check on Thursday to Ian Phillips, director of the News and Media Division of the UN Department of Global Communications (DGC).
The contribution is a special payment made in addition to assessments for the regular and peacekeeping budgets of the UN "to incorporate and consolidate DGC news and multimedia content in Hindi language", the mission said.
India has partnered with the DGC since 2018, when the Hindi@UN project was launched to enhance the United Nations' public outreach in the Hindi language and spread greater awareness of global issues among millions of Hindi-speaking people across the world". , depending on the mission.
The UN produces a Hindi audio news bulletin every week on matters related to the world organisation.
The UN also maintains X, Instagram and Facebook social media accounts in Hindi, in addition to a news website.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke at the UN in Hindi, with simultaneous translation from India.
The late Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first to speak in Hindi at the UN when he addressed the General Assembly as Foreign Minister in 1977.
The UN began with five official languages, English, French, Chinese, Russian and Spanish, in which simultaneous interpretations of meetings are provided and official documents are produced, and, starting in 1973, Arabic was added.
There has been a push to expand the UN's range of multilingualism, but the main constraint is funding, and that is why India is paying for the Hindi initiative.
German-speaking Austria and Germany (which then included East and West Germany) agreed to cover the costs of a document translation service for some UN agencies.
The DGC has increased the use of Kiswahili and Portuguese, languages used in Africa, on social media and in radio and television programs.
It also started producing important official announcements and messages in Persian, Bengali and Urdu.
The contribution is a special payment made in addition to assessments for the regular and peacekeeping budgets of the UN "to incorporate and consolidate DGC news and multimedia content in Hindi language", the mission said.
India has partnered with the DGC since 2018, when the Hindi@UN project was launched to enhance the United Nations' public outreach in the Hindi language and spread greater awareness of global issues among millions of Hindi-speaking people across the world". , depending on the mission.
The UN produces a Hindi audio news bulletin every week on matters related to the world organisation.
The UN also maintains X, Instagram and Facebook social media accounts in Hindi, in addition to a news website.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke at the UN in Hindi, with simultaneous translation from India.
The late Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first to speak in Hindi at the UN when he addressed the General Assembly as Foreign Minister in 1977.
The UN began with five official languages, English, French, Chinese, Russian and Spanish, in which simultaneous interpretations of meetings are provided and official documents are produced, and, starting in 1973, Arabic was added.
There has been a push to expand the UN's range of multilingualism, but the main constraint is funding, and that is why India is paying for the Hindi initiative.
German-speaking Austria and Germany (which then included East and West Germany) agreed to cover the costs of a document translation service for some UN agencies.
The DGC has increased the use of Kiswahili and Portuguese, languages used in Africa, on social media and in radio and television programs.
It also started producing important official announcements and messages in Persian, Bengali and Urdu.
