,


HE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

120 ,210
343 351

-5/ PART V
/ The Union
120.
.
Article 120. Language to be used in
Parliament.

- 6/ PART VI
/ The states
210.
.
Article 210. Language to be used in
the legislature.

-17 - 343-
Official
Union

language

of

the

1.

2. (26 ,1950) 15 (26

, 1965)

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 - 344

.
Commission
and
Committee of Parliament
on Official Language

-2
Chapter- II Regional
Languages
345.

.
Official language or
languages
of a State.

 346.

.
Official languages
for
communication between one
State
and
another
or
between a State and the

 347.

.
Special provision relating to
language spoken by a section of
the population of a State.

-3
, .
Language
of
the
Supreme
Court,High
Courts etc.
-348.

,
.
Language to be used in the Supreme
Court and in the High Courts and for

 -349.

.
Special procedure for
enactment of
certain laws relating to
language
-4.
-Special Directives.

 -350.

.
Language to be used in
representations for redress of
grievances.

 351 /
Directive for development of the
Hindi language

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,

351. Directive for development of the Hindi

language:-

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,


/Eighth

Schedule
1. 2.
3.

4.
5. 6.
7. 8. 9.
10. 11.
12.
13. 14. 15
16. 17. 18.
19. 20.
21.
22.

 1963 3(3).
Section 3(3) of the official
languages
Act,1963


1. (Resolutions)
2. (General Orders),
(Memorandum), (Circular)

3. (Notifications)
4. (Press Communiques)
5. (Contracts)
6. (Agreements)
7.
(Licences)
8. (Permits)

9. (Notices and
Forms of tender)
10. (Rule)
11.
- ( )
Official papers laid before a
House
or
both the Houses of Parliament
(other

12.
.
Administrative or other Reports
laid
before a House or both the
Houses
of Parliament
13. (

).
Administrative or other Reports
(Other than those laid before a

 (
) ,1976 2 (),(),()
Rule 2(f),(g),(h) of The Official
Languages
(Use for Official Purposes of the
Union)
Rules,1976


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 (Region A)
(Region B)
(Region C)

 3.

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Communications to States

etc.other
than to Central Government
offices.
3.1

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.

3.3



3.4

-4

Communications between Central
Government offices.
()

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()

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- 5. Replies to
Communications
received in Hindi.
3 4
,

 -7 , Application,representations,etc.
(1) ,


(2) (1)
,

(3)

(
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 8.
Noting in central Government
offices.
(1)

(2) ,
,

,
,
(3)

 9.
/ Proficiency in Hindi
()
,
()

,
()
,

10.
Working knowledge of Hindi
(1)()
()
,
()
,


,
,

()
,
()

,

 -11 ,
,
Manuals,Codes other
procedural
literature,articles of
stationery etc.
,
1.

2.


3.
,
,

,

-12. Responsibility for compliance.

1.
(i)

,
(ii)

2.

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Examinations.
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