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OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
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The Official languages are mentioned in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution.
The official language is mentioned in the part XVII of the Indian Constitution.
The original Constitution mentioned 14 languages as the official languages.
This is covered in the articles from 343 to 351.
Hindi is the official language of the Union.
The English language was permitted for not more than a period of 15 years from the date
of commencement of the Constitution for all the official purposes of the Union.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE ACT, 1963: The English language was continued as the
official language along with Hindi by enacting Official Language Act, 1963.
ARTICLE 343: The official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script.
The Official Language Commission is appointed by the President.
The first Official Language Commission was appointed in the year 1955.
B G Kher was the chairman of the first Official Language Commission.
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Every bill that is introduced in the Parliament is also accompanied by a Hindi translation.
The language that is used in SUPREME COURT is English only.
The state legislatures were permitted to adopt any one or more than one languages.
NOTE: A state can adopt more than one language.
The Parliament can provide that all the proceedings in Supreme Court and High Courts
are to be in English.
The Governor with the prior consent of the President can authorize the use of Hindi or
any other language of the state in the proceedings of the concerned High Court.
All bills, acts, ordinances, orders, rules, regulations and Bye-laws at the central and states
to be in English.
The state legislature can prescribe the use of any language other than English with respect
to bills, acts, ordinances, orders, rules, regulations, or bye-laws, but a translation of the
same in the English language is to be published.
An aggrieved person who belongs to the linguistic minorities has the right to submit a
representation in any language used in the Union or states for the redress of grievances to
any authority under the central or state government.
Every state should provide adequate facilities for instruction in the mother tongue at the
primary stage of education.
The President should appoint a special officer for linguistic minorities to investigate all
matters relating to the constitutional safeguards for linguistic minorities and to report to
him.
These reports are placed in front of the Parliament and sent to the concerned state
governments.

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HOW MANY LANGUAGES ARE PRESENT IN THE 8TH SCHEDULE?

In the original constitution only 14 languages were mentioned.
At present the number of languages mentioned in the 8th schedule is 22.
Sindhi was the 15th language added through 21st amendment in the year 1971.
Konakani, Nepali and Manipuri languages were added through the 71st amendment in
the year 1992.
The next 4 languages that added to the 8th schedule were Bodo, Dogri, Maitihli and
Santhali.
The last four languages were added through 100th amendment.

THE LIST OF THE LANGUAGES MENTIONED IN THE 8TH SCHEDULE.

Assamese
Bengali
Bodo
Dogri
Gujarati
Hindi
Kannada
Kashmiri

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Konkani
Maithili
Malayalam
Manipuri
Marathi
Nepali
Oriya
Punjabi
Sanskrit
Santhali
Sindhi
Tamil
Telugu
Urdu
Miscellaneous:
In the year 2010 the Gujarat High Court observed that though the majority of the people
in India have accepted Hindi as a national language there was nothing on record to suggest
that any provision has been made or order issued declaring Hindi as a national language of
the country.

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manas teja

7 months ago

one of the commonest aspects in our life yet many Indians, including well educated do not know that Hindi is not our national
language and in fact India does not have any national language at all but only Official languages.. :)
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