HM Amit Shah to inaugurate Joint Regional Rajbhasha Sammelan in Tripura today

NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate the Joint Regional Official Language Conference (Rajbhasha Sammelan) of the Eastern, North-Eastern and Northern regions of the country in Agartala on Friday.

The Ministry of Home Affairs' (MHA) Department of Official Language Secretary, Anshuli Arya, said that more than 3,000 senior officials, representatives and experts from Central government offices, public sector undertakings and banks from the Northern, Eastern and North-Eastern regions of the country will participate in the conference.

She said that officials, representatives and experts from around 20 states will attend the conference, which is the first of its kind in Tripura.

The participating states include West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand from the Eastern region; Assam, Tripura, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim from the Northeastern region; and Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh from the Northern region.