Central Hindi Directorate

The Headquarters of Central Hindi Directorate (CHD) and Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminolgy (CSTT) at present is situated at West Block-7, Ramakrishna Puram, New Delhi –110066. Both the pioneer offices entrusted with the responsibility of promotion and propagation, developing and enriching Hindi, have all along, been making relentless efforts to fulfil the responsibility of the government. These organisations have a huge common Library which is unique in all respects. This library was established in 1952 under then Ministry of Education, Govt of India as a Hindi Division, when CHD and CSTT were set up in 1960 and 1961 respectively.

 All Library collection were handed over to CHD Library in 1962. The books are available in it.This library is to the staff of both offices only. Therefore the books / magazines are issued to the CHD and CSTT . The CHD and CSTT have been inviting from time to time, outside experts through out the year to hold meetings to prepare the Dictionaries, Glossaries and Definitional Dictionaries in different Indian and Foreign languages. The prime objective of library is to provide all necessary reference information and reference books from the library to fulfill the work in both offices. The library has a major role in the field of Hindi Language development, so we can say this is a reference library for Hindi Language.

This Library has a unit of Encyclopedias and Dictionaries published by the National and International publishers. The Literature of Hindi, English and other National and International Languages is also available. It has also a huge collection of Encyclopedias and dictionaries in Urdu, Sanskrit, Kannad, Bangla, Telgu, Tamil, Malyalam, French, German, Spanish, Chez etc. In addition to there are also available the Definitional Dictionaries of Humanities and Sciences of CSTT with the other publishers those are published by them from time to time. To make this library up-to-date and modern the new books on computers and newly emerged subjects are also available.