Union Ministry of Home Affairs website adopts Hindi domain name

As the Narendra Modi government pushes Hindi as a de facto national language amidst fierce resistance, particularly in southern India, reports have emerged of Union government websites using Hindi web addresses.

According to a report by The Hindu, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs uses a Hindi URL –



“गृहकार्य.सरकार.भारत/en” for the English site. Even if one types ‘mha.gov.in‘, it leads to the Hindi URL. Both appear as Google search results if you search with “MHA”, although the Hindi site comes first. In the case of this and other Union government websites with Hindi domain names, the ‘.in’ country code is notably absent from their URLs.