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The Official Languages Act, 1963 which came into effect on 26 January 1965, made provision for the continuation of English as an official language alongside Hindi. [2] In 1968, the official language resolution was passed by the Parliament of India. As per the resolution, the Government of India was obligated to take measures for the development ...
In places like railway stations, signboards are usually written in three languages - the state language (here Odia) and the two official languages Hindi and English. The language of communications between different states or between the union government and a state or a person in a state, is regulated by the Official Languages Act and, except ...
The Ninety-second Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Ninety-second Amendment) Act, 2003, amended the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution so as to include Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santali languages, thereby raising the total number of languages listed in the schedule to 22.
The committee has developed a Hindi Shabdkosh in collaboration with Ministry of Education, adding thousands of new words from other local languages, enriching Hindi of wider vocabulary words. [5] Department of Official Language is working on a software that enables translation of all languages of 8th Schedule to Hindi automatically. [6] [7]
The Eighth Schedule lists languages that the Government of India has the responsibility to develop. [1] The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution originally included 14 languages. [2] The 71st Amendment, enacted in 1992, included three more languages, i.e. Konkani, Meitei (Manipuri) and Nepali.
The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution originally included 14 languages. [2] Sindhi was included by the 21st Amendment , enacted in 1967. Bodo , Dogri , Santhali and Maithili were included in the Eighth Schedule in 2004, through the 92nd Amendment , raising the total number of languages to 22.
English, the primary medium of higher education in India, remains inaccessible to even the literate majority of the country.Therefore, there is an urgent need to translate material in all fields like literary, technical, scientific and business etc. so that such material is accessible to a wide range of different language speaking population across the country.
It is the most widely-spoken language of the Munda subfamily of the Austroasiatic languages, related to Ho and Mundari, spoken mainly in the Indian states of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha, Tripura and West Bengal. [5] It is a recognised regional language of India as per the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. [6]