Hindi Diwas Marked Across BHU, Sanskrit University and Kashi Vidyapith

By Harsh Mehra7 min read
Empty university seminar hall with wooden podium and vacant chairs in soft indoor light, no readable banners, no people, no logos
Illustrative image: Empty university seminar hall with a wooden podium and vacant chairs in soft indoor light.

Hindi Diwas programmes ran across Varanasi’s higher-education campuses on Monday, 14 September 2026, with Banaras Hindu University, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University and Kashi Vidyapith among the venues that marked the day. At BHU’s central office, Registrar Rajan Srivastava read a message from Union Education Minister Prahlad Joshi urging wider use of Hindi as a natural medium of daily work and deeper presence in education, research, innovation and digital technology.

Hindi Officer Dr Shiv Kumar Tripathi read the message of Vice-Chancellor Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi. Dr Ramesh Singh conducted the programme and offered the vote of thanks. The central-office reading set the tone for campus events that followed the same calendar day without collapsing into a single mega-function.

BHU’s Faculty of Education opened a three-day Hindi Diwas Samaroh. At the Women’s College (MMV), a programme featured chief guest Prof. Awadhesh Pradhan speaking on Hindi’s literary tradition. Those faculty and college tracks sit beside the registrar’s reading as parallel Monday stamps, not as footnotes.

Sampurnanand Sanskrit University’s Yoga Sadhana Centre hosted a special lecture titled ‘Swarajya, Swabodh and the Role of Indian Languages’ and released the book Shri Swaminarayan Darshan Sarasangrah by Swami Madhavpriya Das of Swaminarayan Gurukul University Pratishthanam, Gujarat. Named professors attended the Sanskrit University session as part of the locked guest list for that hall.

UP College held a seminar under the theme ‘Hindi Hai Pehchan Hamari’ with poet Shivkumar Parag, Principal Prof. Dharmendra Kumar Singh and Dr Sadanand Singh on the dais frame. At Uday Pratap Inter College, Principal Dr Ramesh Pratap Singh spoke on Hindi’s necessity in the day’s observance. Campus Hindi Diwas in Kashi thus stretched from central university offices to college seminar rooms in one Monday sweep.

Joshi’s message themes — daily work medium, education, research, innovation, digital technology — give the policy vocabulary campuses used. Chaturvedi’s message, read by the Hindi Officer, supplied the vice-chancellor’s institutional line. This desk records both without inventing applause lines or student quotes.

A book release inside a Sanskrit University Hindi Diwas lecture ties language observance to a printed text rather than only speeches. The Swaminarayan Darshan Sarasangrah volume and Swami Madhavpriya Das’s presence are the locked release details for that hall. UP College’s ‘Hindi Hai Pehchan Hamari’ title keeps the college seminar in the same Monday register with a poet on the programme.

The piece stays on Monday Diwas events. Separate preview calendars for other literary closings later in the week are out of scope here. Readers who want only the 14 September campus stamp will find it in the registrar reading, the Education Faculty’s three-day open, the Women’s College session, the Sanskrit University lecture and book release, and the UP College and Uday Pratap observances.

For students and staff who moved between these halls on Monday, the practical record is straightforward: Hindi Diwas was marked with messages, a book release, seminars and the start of a three-day faculty samaroh. That is the locked campus map for 14 September.

Sources and reporting

Monday 14 Sep 2026 Hindi Diwas across Kashi HEIs. BHU central office: Registrar Rajan Srivastava read Prahlad Joshi message; Dr Shiv Kumar Tripathi read VC Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi message; Dr Ramesh Singh anchored. Joshi themes: Hindi as daily work medium; use in education, research, innovation, digital technology. BHU Education Faculty three-day Samaroh began; Women’s College with Prof. Awadhesh Pradhan. Sanskrit University Yoga Sadhana Centre: lecture + Swaminarayan Darshan Sarasangrah release by Swami Madhavpriya Das. UP College seminar ‘Hindi Hai Pehchan Hamari’; Uday Pratap Inter College principal remarks.

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