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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-22122025-268714
EXTRAORDINARY
PART I-Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 371]
NEW DELHI, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2025/PAUSHA 1, 1947
8591 GI/2025
MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES
New Delhi, the 19th December, 2025
RESOLUTION
F.No. MoES-1/8/2014-OL—The Government of India, Ministry of Earth Sciences has decided to constitute
the Hindi Advisory Committee. The Composition of the Committee and its functions shall be as under:-
Composition
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| Hon'ble Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Earth Sciences | Chairman |
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Non-Official Members
Members of Parliament nominated by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (4 Members)
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| 1. Shri Anil Baluni (Lok Sabha) | Member |
| 2. Shri Ravindra Shukla alias Ravi Kishan (Lok Sabha) | Member |
| 3. Shri Paka Venkata Satyanarayana (Rajya Sabha) | Member |
| 4. Shri Kanad Purkayastha (Rajya Sabha) | Member |
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Members of Parliament nominated by Committee of Parliament on Official Language
(2 Members)
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| 5. Shri Haribhai Patel (Lok Sabha) | Member |
| 6. Shri Sumer Singh Solanki (Rajya Sabha) | Member |
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Nominated by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (4 Members)
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| 7. Shri Ashutosh Bhatnagar | Member |
| 8. Shri Bhanu Kishore Kandru | Member |
| 9. Shri Gurdeep Singh | Member |
| 10. Shri Rajkumar | Member |
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Representatives of Voluntary Hindi Organizations (2 Members)
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| 11. Shri S. Gaibuvalli, Hindi Prachar Sabha, Hyderabad | Member |
| 12. Smt. Rashmi Saluja, Vishva Hindi Parishad, New Delhi | Member |
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Members Nominated by the Department of Official Language (3 Members)
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| 13. Shri Raghavenddhiraa, Bengaluru | Member |
| 14. Shri Jitendra Pachauri, Agra, Uttar Pradesh | Member |
| 15. Shri Ketan Mansukhlal Sanghani, Mumbai | Member |
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Official Members
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| 16. Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences | Member |
| 17. Secretary, Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs | Member |
| 18. AS & FA, Ministry of Earth Sciences | Member |
| 19. Joint Secretary, Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs | Member |
| 20. Director General, India Meteorological Department, New Delhi | Member |
| 21. Director, National Center for Seismology, New Delhi | Member |
| 22. Head, Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Noida | Member |
| 23. Director, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune | Member |
| 24. Director, National Center for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa | Member |
| 25. Director, Indian National Center For Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad | Member |
| 26. Director, National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai | Member |
| 27. Director, National Center for Coastal Research, Chennai | Member |
| 28. Director, National Center for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram | Member |
| 29. Head, Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology, Kochi | Member |
| 30. Joint Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences | Member Secretary|
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2. Functions of the Committee
The functions of the Committee will be to render advice to the Ministry of Earth Sciences and all offices
under its administrative control on matters relating to the provisions of the official languages enshrined in the
Constitution and the directions/instructions issued by the Department of Official Language for the progressive use of
Hindi in official work.
3. Tenure
(i) The tenure of the Committee will ordinarily be three years from the date of its constitution, provided that:
A Member of Parliament nominated to the Committee shall cease to be a member of the Committee as soon
as he ceases to be a Member of Parliament;
(ii) The Official Members of the Committee will remain members of the Committee till they work in their
respective posts. Any Member appointed against mid-term vacancy shall be a member for the remaining
tenure of the Committee.
(iii) In special circumstances, the tenure of the committee may be curtailed/extended by the Ministry of Earth
Sciences.
4. General
The Headquarters of the Committee will be at New Delhi and as per Department of Official Language O.M.
No. 14013/01/2019-OL (Policy) dated 02.11.2023, all the meetings of the Committee are required to be organized in
New Delhi only.
5. Travelling and other allowances
The non-official members of the Committee will be paid travelling and daily allowances for attending the
meetings of the Committee as per the provisions contained in the Department of Official Language O.M. No.
II/22034/04/86-OL(I-2) dated 22nd January, 1987 of the Department of Expenditure and in accordance with the rates
and rules prescribed from time to time by the Government of India.
ORDER
Ordered that a copy of this Resolution be communicated to all members of the Committee, all State
Governments and Union Territory Administrations, Prime Minister's Office, Cabinet Secretariat, Ministry of
Parliamentary Affairs, Lok Sabha Secretariat, Rajya Sabha Secretariat, President's Secretariat, Vice-President's
Secretariat, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Niti Ayog, all Ministries and Departments of the Government
of India. It is also ordered that the Resolution be published in the Gazette of India for information to the public.
D. SENTHIL PANDIYAN, Jt. Secy.
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