briefly explain the language policy of india
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Language policy of India:
Our Constitution did not give the status of national language to any one language.Hindi was identified as the official language.But Hindi is the mother tongue of only about 40 per cent of Indians. Therefore, there were many safeguards to protect other languages.Besides Hindi, there are 21 other languages recognised as Scheduled Languages by the Constitution.States too have their own official languages. Much of the government work takes place in the official language of the concerned State.
Our Constitution did not give the status of national language to any one language.Hindi was identified as the official language.But Hindi is the mother tongue of only about 40 per cent of Indians. Therefore, there were many safeguards to protect other languages.Besides Hindi, there are 21 other languages recognised as Scheduled Languages by the Constitution.States too have their own official languages. Much of the government work takes place in the official language of the concerned State.
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Language policy includes the following points.These are as follows:-
1)Our Constitution formulates no special status to any one language.
2)Hindi is official language of only 40% of Indians.So there are many provisions to protect other languages.
3)Besides Hindi there are 21 other scheduled languages identified by the Indian Constitution which are:- Punjabi,Sindhi,Gujarati,Marathi,Bengali,Oriya,Assamese,Urdu,Sanskrit,Kashmiri,Tamil,Telugu,Kannada,Malayalam,Nepali,Manipuri,Konkani,Santhali,Maithili,Bodo and Dogri.
4)According to the Constitution,the use of English for official purposes was to stop in 1965.
5)However,many non-Hindi speaking states demanded that the use of English for official purposes should continue.The Central government then took a decision to continue the use of English along with Hindi for official purposes.Thus,the government does not follow a policy of imposing Hindi on non-Hindi speaking states
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1)Our Constitution formulates no special status to any one language.
2)Hindi is official language of only 40% of Indians.So there are many provisions to protect other languages.
3)Besides Hindi there are 21 other scheduled languages identified by the Indian Constitution which are:- Punjabi,Sindhi,Gujarati,Marathi,Bengali,Oriya,Assamese,Urdu,Sanskrit,Kashmiri,Tamil,Telugu,Kannada,Malayalam,Nepali,Manipuri,Konkani,Santhali,Maithili,Bodo and Dogri.
4)According to the Constitution,the use of English for official purposes was to stop in 1965.
5)However,many non-Hindi speaking states demanded that the use of English for official purposes should continue.The Central government then took a decision to continue the use of English along with Hindi for official purposes.Thus,the government does not follow a policy of imposing Hindi on non-Hindi speaking states
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