{"id":20146,"date":"2018-01-28T16:58:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T16:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=20146"},"modified":"2018-01-28T16:58:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T16:58:16","slug":"aadhaar-oxfords-hindi-word-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/aadhaar-oxfords-hindi-word-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Aadhaar\u2019 Oxford\u2019s Hindi word of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Perhaps no other word has divided the country as much as \u2018Aadhaar\u2019, but Nandan Nilekani\u2019s brainchild is Oxford Dictionaries\u2019 Hindi word of the year for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made on the Oxford Dictionaries\u2019 blog on Saturday. It beat \u2018mitron,\u2019 \u2018notebandi,\u2019 \u2018vikas\u2019, \u2018swachh,\u2019 \u2018yoga,\u2019 \u2018gau rakshak\u2019 and \u2018bahubali\u2019, among other words, to emerge the winner.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nAadhaar, which literally translates to \u2018support,\u2019 has been on people\u2019s minds ever since the Narendra Modi government decided to make it mandatory for citizens to link their bank accounts, phone numbers, mutual funds and other things in the name of security. Aadhaar is also essential for availing the government\u2019s social sector benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme has been in the news over data theft and \u2018sale\u2019 and \u2018misuse\u2019 of data. In certain instances, technical flaws have resulted in beneficiaries of various government schemes not getting what they are entitled to.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nThe government\u2019s ambitious project also earned bad press after a woman in Jharkhand was denied ration at a PDS shop after the biometric equipment failed to identify her fingerprints. The Supreme Court is currently hearing a clutch of legal challenges to Aadhaar.<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>In November 2017, Oxford Dictionaries called for entries for the Hindi word of the year as it felt this would lay emphasis on the role played by Hindi, the world\u2019s fourth-largest spoken language.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Perhaps no other word has divided the country as much as \u2018Aadhaar\u2019, but Nandan Nilekani\u2019s brainchild is Oxford Dictionaries\u2019 Hindi word of the year for 2017. 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