Butwal, Mar. 25:The two-day third Nepal National Hindi Conference organised in Lumbini, Siddharthanagar concluded today by adopting a 37-point declaration.

The conference pointed out the need to include Hindi in school to university level curriculums.

The conference also stressed the need to formulate concrete policies and plans for developing the script,  literature, grammar and dictionary of all the languages spoken in the country so as to encourage and preserve all languages in a multilingual country.

The declaration calls for, among other things, more time for Hindi in the electronic media, inclusion of Hindi in the curriculum of the Public Service Commission,  publication of works in Hindi impartially by the Sajha Prakashan and the Royal Nepal Academy and publication of a Hindi edition of the Gorkhapatra.

The declaration also calls for positions in the Royal Nepal Academy to well known Hindi scholars and recognition of great Hindi literary figures as national heros.

About 100 litterateurs and academics from all over Nepal had participated at the conference organised by the Janakpur Boudhik Samaj.

The next fourth Nepal National Hindi conference will be organised in Nepalgunj on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the  National Democracy Day.

Meanwhile, a grand poetry symposium was organised under the joint auspices of the Indian Embassy and the Boudhik Samaj in Siddarthanagar today on the occasion of the third Nepal National Hindi Conference.

At the symposium, a host of poets and poetesses including Rajeswor Nepali, Sanjita Sharma, Suraju Chaudhari, Jayanarayan Jha Jigyasu, Prof. Hare Krishna Saha, Bunda Rana, Kapil Lamichhane, Sitaram Agrahari Prakash, Ganga Prasad Akela, Shyamananda Singh and Himanshu Chaudhari recited poems.