Award for NMDC
The Hindu
Mining major NMDC was presented with the Rajbhasha Keerthi Puraskar at the Rajbhasha Diwas Samaroh in New Delhi on Tuesday. The company in a release said it secured the third prize in the category of
Mining major NMDC was presented with the Rajbhasha Keerthi Puraskar at the Rajbhasha Diwas Samaroh in New Delhi on Tuesday. The company in a release said it secured the third prize in the category of Undertakings situated in “C” region for 2019-20. Ministers of State for Home Nishith Pramanik and Ajay Kumar Mishra presented the award, which was received by Executive Director (Corporate Affairs) Shiva Shanmuganathan.
Assistant Manager (Rajbhasha) of NMDC Donimalai Iron Ore Project Sailesh Shukla was also felicitated with the “Rajbhasha Gourav Puraskar” for his published article. Listing out the various activities it conducted to promote use of Hindi as official language, the company said it offered a monthly incentive scheme as a measure to encourage employees to conduct routine official work in Hindi.
Hampi, the UNESCO-recognised historical site, was the capital of the Vijayanagara empire from 1336 to 1565. Foreign travellers from Persia, Europe and other parts of the world have chronicled the wealth of the place and the unique cultural mores of this kingdom built on the banks of the Tungabhadra river. There are fine descriptions to be found of its temples, farms, markets and trading links, remnants of which one can see in the ruins now. The Literature, architecture of this era continue inspire awe.
Unfurling the zine handed to us at the start of the walk, we use brightly-coloured markers to draw squiggly cables across the page, starting from a sepia-toned vintage photograph of the telegraph office. Iz, who goes by the pronouns they/them, explains, “This building is still standing, though it shut down in 2013,” they say, pointing out that telegraphy, which started in Bengaluru in 1854, was an instrument of colonial power and control. “The British colonised lands via telegraph cables, something known as the All Red Line.”