Question

write any five characterstics of language policy of india?

Answer 1

• 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 40% of Indians.
• Besides Hindi, there are 21 other languages recognised as Scheduled Languages by the constitution.
• States too have official languages.
• There are 114 major languages, Of these 22 languages are now included in the Eighth schedule of the Indian constitution and are therefore called "non scheduled languages"