The direction given under article 351 of the Indian Constitution for the development of Hindi Language is as under-
"It shall be the duty of the Union to promote the spread of the Hindi language, to develop it so that it may serve as a medium of expression for all the elements of the composite culture of India and to secure its enrichment by assimilating without interfering with its genius, the forms, style and expressions used in Hindustani and in the other languages of India specified in the Eighth Schedule, and by drawing, wherever necessary or desirable, for its vocabulary, primarily on Sanskrit and secondarily on other languages."

In keeping with above cited constitutional injunction of the Central Hindi Directorate was established on 1st March, 1960 as a subordinate office of the then Ministry of Education(which has now been renamed as Ministry of Education, Department of Higher Education). The four regional offices of the Directorate are located in Chennai, Hyderabad, Guwahati and Kolkata.