Hindi Diwas 2026: Amit Shah Opens 6th Rajbhasha Conference

The correct answer is CIDCO Exhibition Centre, Vashi, Navi Mumbai. The Department of Official Language, which functions under the Ministry of Home Affairs, held the sixth edition of the All India Official Language Conference there together with the Hindi Diwas programme, and the sittings were spread over 14 and 15 September 2026. Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah attended as the chief guest and gave away the Rajbhasha Kirti and Rajbhasha Gaurav Awards at the same venue. Option A is wrong because the conference was not held in the national capital this year, and no sitting took place at Vigyan Bhawan. Option C is wrong for the same reason, as the venue was in Maharashtra and not in New Delhi. Option D is wrong because Gujarat did not host the conference; the Home Minister only mentioned that he himself is a Gujarati speaker who has never found Hindi a barrier in national work. Candidates should link the sixth edition firmly with Navi Mumbai, because the venue is the detail most often asked in examinations.

The correct answer is 8 lakh words. The Home Minister told the conference that Hindi Shabd Sindhu has now grown to that size, and that it is expected to become the largest dictionary anywhere in the world by 2029. He added that more than 50,000 words drawn from local languages have been folded into it, which he said has made official Hindi more flexible and more inclusive, and that words coined by Veer Savarkar are also being included. Option A is wrong because that figure is far below the size the Minister announced. Option B is also wrong, although candidates sometimes confuse it with the five crore sentences held in the database of the artificial intelligence translation tool Kanthasth 2.0, which is a separate fact from the same speech. Option D is wrong because no such number was mentioned, and the dictionary is expected to keep growing towards the world record only over the next few years. Remember the pair of figures together: 8 lakh words now, and the world's largest dictionary by 2029.

The correct answer is the Department of Financial Services. It was placed first under Rajbhasha Kirti for the year 2025-26 in the category meant for ministries and departments having fewer than 300 employees, and the citation praised its effective use and innovative handling of official Hindi. Additional Secretary Hari Har Mishra collected the award from the Union Home Minister. Option B is wrong, but only just: the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances was given the special Rajbhasha Utkrishtata Sammaan instead, because it had already stood first for two years in a row, in 2023-24 and in 2024-25, and the rules bar a department from taking the prize again in the following year. Option C is wrong because the Department of Official Language is the body that confers these awards rather than a contender for them. Option D is wrong because the postal department was not named among the winners in this release.