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SEQUENCE
OF EVENTS WITH REFERENCE
TO OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE
UNION
Date
SEQUENCE
OF EVENTS
14.9.1949
: The
Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi as the Official Language of
the
Union
26.1.1950
: The Constitution came into
force. Consequently provisions made there in relating to
languages (Article 120, 210 and 343 to 351)
1952
: Voluntary
Hindi language training was started by Ministry of Education.
27.5.1952
: The use of Hindi
Language in addition to English language and of Devnagri from
of numerals in addition to the international form of Indian
numerals was authorised for warrants of appointments of
Governors of State, Judges of the Supreme Court and Judges of
the High Courts.
July,
1955 : Hindi
Teaching Scheme was launched. In-service training in Hindi was
started for Ministries, Departments, Attached and Subordinate
offices of the Central Government.
7.6.1955
: B.G.Kher
Commission {Under Article 344(I) of the Constitution}
constituted.
October,
1955: Hindi Teaching
Scheme was introduced under Ministry of Home Affairs.
3.12.1955
: In
exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to Article
343(2) of the Constitution, orders were issued for the use of
Hindi language in addition to the English language for
specific purposes of the
Union
.
31.7.1956
: The
Report of the Kher Commission was submitted to the President.
1957
: A
Parliamentary Committee was constituted under the chairmanship
of the then Minister of Home Affairs Shri Govind Ballabh Pant
to review the Kher Commission Report.
8.2.1959
: The
Report of the Committee of Parliament constituted under
Article 344(4) of the Constitution was submitted to the
President.
September,1959
: Debate
in Parliament on the report of the Committee of Parliament on
Official Languages. The then Prime Minister, Shri Jawahar Lal
Nehru assured the House that neither will there be any
hindrance on the was of using English as an associate language
nor will there be fixed any time limit for it. All the
languages of
India
are equally respected and are our National Languages.
1960
: The
compulsory training of Hindi typing, Hindi stenography was
started.
27.4.1960
: Presidential
orders were issued on the report of the Committee of
Parliament on Official Languages, which includes issues
relating to preparation of Hindi glossaries, Hindi translation
of codes and procedural literature, imparting training in
Hindi to employees, propagation of Hindi, language of bills,
language to be used in the Supreme Court and High Courts etc.
10.5.1963
: Keeping in view
the provision made in Article 343(3) and the assurance given
by Shri Jawahar Lal Nehru, the Official Languages Act was
enacted. Accordingly, Hindi is being used as the Official
Language of the
Union
and English as an associate language.
5.9.1967
: Central Hindi
Committee or Kendriya Hindi Samiti constituted under the
chairmanship of the Prime Minister.
16.12.1967:
A Resolution on
Official Languages was adopted by both Houses of Parliament on
16.12.1976 and notified on 18.1.1968. In it the need to
prepare a more intensive and comprehensive programme for the
progressive use of Hindi for official purposes, preparing
annual assessment report for reviewing its progress,
formulating a programme for the co-ordinated development of
the other languages included in the 8th schedule along with
Hindi, adopting of a tri-lingual formula, making the knowledge
of either Hindi or English compulsory for recruitment to the
services of the Union, and inclusion of all the languages of
the 8th Schedule of the Constitution and English as the
optional medium for the exams. conducted by the Union Public
Service Commission at an appropriate time, has been stressed.
(The Resolution was notified on 18.01.1968)
1967 :
Sindhi language was
included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution.
8.1.1968
: The Official
Languages Act, 1963 was amended. Accordingly, a provision was
made in Section 3(4) of the Act that employees of the Union
Government proficient either in Hindi or in English may carry
out their work effectively and interests may not be adversely
affected merely because they are not proficient in both the
languages. According to Section 3(5) bringing to an end the
use of English language for the official purposes of the Union
it is necessary that the resolutions to that effect passed by
the Legislatures of the States (where Hindi is not the
Official Language) and after considering these passed by both
the Houses of the Parliament to put an end to the use of
English language.
1968
: According to the
provisions made in the Official Language Resolution, 1968, for
working in official language Hindi an annual programme was
chalked out from the year 1968-69 onwards.
01.03.1971
: Central
Translation Bureau constituted.
1973:
Establishment of a
training centre at the
Delhi
based head quarter of Central Translation Bureau.
1974:
Compulsory training of
Hindi language, typing and shorthand, for the employees of the Central Government and Corporations Undertakings,
Banks etc. owned or controlled by it, except for class-IV
employees, work-charged employees and employees of Industrial
Units.
June,
1975 : With
a view to implementing Constitutional and legal provisions
relating to the Official Language, the Department of Official
Language came into being.
1976 :
Official Languages Rules were framed.
1976
: Parliamentary
Committee on Official Language was constituted according to
the provisions in Section 4 of the Official Languages Act. The
Committee has since submitted 08 parts of its report and
presidential orders have been issued on first 07 parts. Action
is being taken for seeking comments of various Ministries and
State Governments on the recommendations contained in the 08th
part of the report.
1977:
Shri Atal Bihari
Vajpayee, the then Foreign Minister, addressed the General
Assembly of United Nations Organisation, in Hindi for the
first time.
1981
: The
Central Secretariat Official Language Service was constituted.
25.10.1983
: Technical
Cell was constituted in the Department of Official Language
with a view to promote the use of Official Language Hindi on
mechanical/electronic devices and to publicize the available
bilingual facilities in the Ministries/Departments of
Government of India, Government Undertakings, Nationalised
Banks.
21-08-1985
: Central Hindi
Training Institute was instituted to provide fulltime
intensive training of Hindi Language, Hindi typing and Hindi
stenography to employees.
1986:
The Report of
Kothari Education Commission was presented. It was already
recommended in 1968 that Indian languages should be the medium
of education in
India
. It was mentioned in the implementation-programme of new
Education Policy (1986) about the medium of higher education
that “the modern Indian languages are already being used as
medium of education at school level. It is the need of the
hour that these should also be adopted at university level as
medium progressively. For this, it is desirable that the
progressive modern Indian languages should be adopted in all
subjects and at every level as medium of education, after
consultation with the State Governments, University Grants
Commission.
1986-87 :
Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Awards were instituted.
09.10.1987
: Official
Languages Rules, 1976 were amended.
1988:
Shri
P.V.Narsimha Rao, the then Foreign Minister, addressed the
General Assembly of United Nations Organisation, in Hindi.
1992
: Konkani,
Manipuri and Nepali languages were included in the Eighth
Schedule to the Constitution.
14.9.1999
: Golden Jubilee of
the official language Hindi of the
Union
was celebrated.
24.01.2000:
The
Portal of Department of Official Language was launched
by Hon’ble Home Minister in which Department related
information were made
available bilingually.
20.10.2000:
The
National Awards Scheme for Original Book Writing on
Gyan-Vigyan for the year 2001-02 was started under which the
awards are as follows :-
(1)
First Prize -
Rs. 1,00,000
(2)
Second Prize -
Rs. 75,000
(3)
Third Prize -
Rs. 50,000
(4)
Ten consolation Prizes -
Rs. 10,000
02.09.2003:
A
Committee was constituted under the chairmanship of Dr.
Sitakant Mohapatra to consider the issues relating to demands
for inclusion of more languages in the Eighth Schedule to the
Constitution and to study the feasibility of treating all
languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution
as Official Languages of the
Union
. The Committee submitted
its report on 14.06.2004.
11.09.2003
: The
Cabinet took a decision for preparation of question papers of
N.D.A. and C.D.S. examinations in Hindi also.
14.09.2003
: The
Department of Official Language has made available on its
web-site a computer programme (Lila Hindi Prabodh, Lila Hindi
Praveen and Lila Hindi Pragya) for self-learning of Hindi up
to the level of Prabodh, Praveen and Pragya with the help of
computer.
08.01.2004:
Bodo,
Dogri, Maithili and Santhali languages were included in the
Eighth Schedule to the Constitution.
22.07.2004:
The
norms for the creation of minimum number of Hindi posts for
compliance/implementation of the Official Language Policy of
the Central Government were re-fixed.
06.09.2004:
The
Supreme Court observed in a Public Interest Litigation filed
by Matribhasha Vikas Parishad that the objective behind
constitution of Commission for Scientific and Technical
Terminology is to provide uniformity in terminology being used
for Hindi and other modern languages. This uniformity is
necessary for usage of technical terminology. The Supreme
Court directed that the terminology coined by the Commission
should be used in the text books prepared by the N.C.E.R.T.
under the Government of India and by other institutions
like-wise.
14.09.2004
:
The Department of Official Language made available on its
web-site a free of cost self-learning package for Hindi of the
level of Prabodh, Praveen and Pragya through the medium of
Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada languages.
20.06.2005:
525
Hindi fonts, fonts code-converter, English-Hindi Dictionary,
Hindi spell-checker have been made available on the web-site
free of cost. These can be down-loaded from http://ildc.gov.in
.
08.08.2005:
The
National Awards Scheme for Original Book Writing on
Gyan-Vigyan was renamed as Rajiv Gandhi National Award Scheme
for Original Book Writing on Gyan-Vigyan under which the
enhanced prize amounts are as under:-
(1)
First Prize -
Rs. 2,00,000
(2)
Second Prize -
Rs. 1,25,000
(3)
Third Prize -
Rs. 75,000
(4)
Consolation Prizes (10) -
Rs. 10,000 to each winner
This
scheme will be effective from the year 2004-05 (books
published in).
14.09.2005:
The
Department of Official Language has made available on its
web-site the self-learning package for Hindi of the level of
Prabodh, Praveen and Pragya through the medium of Bangla
language.
Mantra-Rajbhasha
(English to Hindi Translation tool) for Administrative and
Finance domains were launched.
14.09.2006:
The
Department of Official Language has made available on its
web-site the self-learning package for Hindi of the level of
Prabodh, Praveen and Pragya through the medium of
Assamese, Oriya, Marathi and
Manipuri
languages.
Mantra-Rajbhasha
(English to Hindi Translation tool) for Small Scale Industries
and Agriculture domains were launched.
14.09.2007:
The
Department of Official Language has made available on its
web-site the self-learning package for Hindi of the level of
Prabodh, Praveen and Pragya through the medium of
Nepali, Punjabi, Kashmiri and
Gujarati
languages.
Mantra-Rajbhasha
(English to Hindi Translation tool) for Information Technology
and Health Care domains were launched.
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