HINDI is NOT the NATIONAL LANGUAGE of INDIA, GUJRAT HIGH COURT Declaration

What the hell is t his. Just fire that judge. Why people are dividing india. If court will give this type of results then what will happen in normal life.

I don't know why in india some people are making the issue of language . Shivsena compels the Taxi driver to learn marathi . Nw Gujart said HINDI is not athe national language

Please read the court's decision carefully...
Do not jump to conclusions...
What do you mean by 'Bhaiyas'... This is a discriminative comment... and insulting address for Hindi speaking Indians...
I register a strong protest against the word 'Bhaiyas'

Court says that Hindi is the official language... There is no national language... They have not rejected Hindi...

You are very correct Harish. I fully agree with you.

Such interpretation may be dangerous. We should not indulge in such discussion. Without Hindi how can one think of Hidusthan!

Even though I am a non Hindi I honour Hindi as the national language of INdia.But I am not to question court's declaration.

Language is just a medium for communication but India we made it as vote banks/ medium for dividing the people

Any language when forced to learn it becomes an issues. Any body forced you to learn English ???

When comes to Job/earning we learned English it is n't? So better not politicize which is going to be national language .

I think its time think to make English as official language and govt, should initiate English should reach everybody

You have raised a good point and I support it wholeheartedly...

Yet I do not accept the slang "bhaiyas" that has been flashed on an international electronic media and presents an ugly image of a divided Indian society on linguistic grounds...

I had mentioned in one of my post that all the languages included in a shcedule of the Constitution / those used in currency notes are naional. Hindi is simply official language and English is the associate official language. Some people go on proclaiming that Hindi is national language without any backing of law.

But Harish ji. Hindi is the national language. Not an official language. Hindi is the national language from a lot of time and it will remain. ok

By using the words 'national' or 'official' the importance and the constitutional position of Hindi does not affect...
Hindi has been adopted / declared by the government of India as the main language for interaction in the union of India.

For detailed information... Please read the following:

Official notification of Govt of India on Hindi:
http://india.gov.in/knowindia/official_language.php
Official Language - Constitutional/Statutory Provisions

Article 343(1) of the Constitution provides that Hindi in Devanagari script shall be the Official Language of the Union. Article 343(2) also provided for continuing the use of English in official work of the Union for a period of 15 years (i.e., up to 25 January 1965) from the date of commencement of the Constitution. Article 343(3) empowered the parliament to provide by law for continued use of English for official purposes even after 25 January 1965. Accordingly, section 3(2) of the Official Languages Act, 1963 (amended in 1967) provides for continuing the use of English in official work even after 25 January 1965. The Act also lays down that both Hindi and English shall compulsorily be used for certain specified purposes such as Resolutions, General Orders, Rules, Notifications, Administrative and other Reports, Press Communiqués; Administrative and other Reports and Official Papers to be laid before a House or the Houses of Parliament; Contracts, Agreements, Licences, Permits, Tender Notices and Forms of Tender, etc.

In 1976, Official Language Rules were framed under the provisions of section 8(1) of the Official Languages Act, 1963. Its salient features are as under:

They apply to all Central Government Offices, including any office of a Commission, Committee or Tribunal appointed by the Central Government and Corporation or Company owned or controlled by it;

Communications from a Central Government Office to State/Union Territories or to any person in Region "A" comprising the States of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Haryana and UTs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Delhi, shall be in Hindi;

Communications from a Central Government Office to States/UTs in Region "B" comprising the States of Punjab, Gujarat, Maharashtra and the Union Territory of Chandigarh, shall ordinarily be in Hindi. However, communication to any person in Region "B" may be either in English or Hindi;

Communications from a Central Government Office to a State Government Office in region 'C' comprising all other States and UTs not included in region 'A' & 'B' or to any office (note being a Central Government Office) or person shall be in English;


Communications between Central Government Offices and from Central Government Offices to the Offices of the State Governments/Union Territories and individuals, etc., will be in Hindi in such proportions as may be determined from time to time;

All Manuals, Codes and other Procedural literature relating to Central Government Offices are required to be prepared both in Hindi and English. All Forms, Headings of Registers, Name Plates, Notice Boards and various items of stationery, etc., are also required to be in Hindi and English;

It shall be the responsibility of the officer signing the documents specified in section 3(3) of the Act to ensure that these are issued both in Hindi and English

Shall be the responsibility of the administrative head of each Central Government Office to ensure that the provisions of the Act, the Rules and directions issued under Sub-Rule-2 are properly complied with and to devise suitable and effective check points for this purpose
Policy

In compliance with the Official Language Resolution, 1968, an Annual Programme is prepared by the Department of Official Language in which targets are set for the offices of the Central Government with regard to originating correspondence, telegrams, telex, etc., in Hindi. A Quarterly Progress Report is called for from the offices of the Central Government regarding achievements vis-à-vis the said targets. An Annual Assessment Report is prepared on the basis of the Quarterly Progress Reports, which is laid on the Tables of both Houses of the Parliament and copies endorsed to State Governments and the Ministries/Departments of the Central Government.

Eight Regional Implementation Offices have been established at Bangalore, Cochin, Mumbai, Kolkata, Guwahati, Bhopal, Delhi and Ghaziabad to monitor the implementation of Official Language Policy of the Union.

Hindi belongs to the natives of the northern states.

Accepting Hindi over local tongues, automatically devalues the local tongues.
As Hindi is not special, its just a local tongue of the north.

Why should one groups local tongue be used as the language of the entire nation.
That in itself is discriminatory.

English, isnt a local tongue, nor is it an Indian language, therefore neutral.

For that better ask the Government of India and the authors of the constitution of the Republic of India... before criticizing the Indian Constitution...

That is not a valid reason to call Hindi speaking people as "Bhaiyas" and abuse the people of the entire northern belt and central India...

Such comments at the time of the 60th Republic Day of India are indecent and narrow...

Truly, Hindi is the official language of the Union and is also official languages of many states. Thus Hindi is very important link between different regions. However, there is no language declared as 'National'. Harish very aptly says that there should be no insulting and absurd words used against any community. It is very annoying and undesirable to describe Hindi speaking as 'Bhaiyya'. Thus they may also describe south Indians as 'Lungi walah'. There is no end to it. Languages are for unity through communication and not for dividing people.

Its a tendency of people to form groups n then after a group is formed they will form some opinions which will be spread by that group. And our govt. takes advantage of this thing to rule that group.Same thing is happening with Tamilnadu. Central govt. is not very keen on this,as it want to please everybody. Now tell me,Even English is a Foreign Language no,then y r all the Tamilians learning English without making any bugaboo of sons of soil n language imposition. Becoz if u ll not learn English,nobody is gonna give u a job worth 3k per month also.... Isn't it a fact? But in other parts of our country INDIA,this is not the case,even if u don't know that much English u can get a good job,provided u speak good Hindi and your local language. Achcha ek aur baat,Which is India's no. 1 News Channel? Answer: AAJ TAK,which is a HINDI news Channel,kyunki 75% population of INDIA knows HINDI.N Which is the second biggest Film Industry in World,obviously HINDI FILM INDUSTRY. Now after knowing all this if somebody wants to be a minority member of not knowing HINDI-INDIA's Official Language,then God also can't help them....

This was a very good thread started in initial stage...
Yet "Bhaiyas" word has played all the trouble... (hurting feelings of a majority population of India)

In addition the following statement shows a different picture of the thread:

I quote...
"Hindi belongs to the natives of the northern states.

Accepting Hindi over local tongues, automatically devalues the local tongues.
As Hindi is not special, its just a local tongue of the north.

Why should one groups local tongue be used as the language of the entire nation.
That in itself is discriminatory.

English, isnt a local tongue, nor is it an Indian language, therefore neutral." ...unquote.

The Constitution of India came into existence on January 26, 1950. It said that Hindi and English would be the "official languages" of the Central government of India till 1965 (for a period of 15 years); subsequently, Hindi was expected to become the sole "national and official language" of India. This applied to Central as well as State governments. Hindi and English became the "official languages" in every department controlled by the Central government. This explains why Hindi is prominent in the Indian Railways, the nationalised banks, etc, which come under the purview of the Central government.

As January 26, 1965 neared, some in the non-Hindi belt, particularly the Tamils, started voicing their apprehensions openly. The idea of making Hindi the sole national language was blasphemous to the students as it involved the simultaneous and complete withdrawal of English, even as a medium for competitive examinations for jobs and education! This meant that the northern region would bag government jobs and dominate the field of education, given the proficiency in Hindi of the people of the region. Since government jobs were the most sought after in the pre-1991 era, the measure was seen as an indirect attempt to deny jobs to the English-educated South Indians. The non-Hindi-speaking people from South India feared that they would be discriminated against in government employment and in other possible ways. Between 1948 and 1961, on an average, every year, close to 24% of Central government officials had been selected from the State of Madras (the present-day Tamil Nadu). Uttar Pradesh came second best, accounting for about 16%.

The 1940s, 1950s and the first half of the 1960s witnessed many anti-Hindi pro-tests in the form of public meetings, marches, hunger strikes and demonstrations before schools and Central government offices; black flag demonstrations greeted Central government ministers. Most of these were organized either by the DK or the DMK and the general public supported them fully. There were hundreds of such protests from Tamil Nadu and thousands were jailed. Several hundreds were injured when police used lathi-charge to disperse the peaceful protesters. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then PM, even though supportive of the pro-Hindi group, came up with a set of compromises that denied Hindi the "sole national language" status, realising the seriousness of the issue.

Thanks for all this information...

Now what do you say about calling names like "Bhaiyas" and insulting Indians on world wide internet...?

What the world will think about we Indians...?

Rohit- English is already the associate offcial language of Central Government and is the official language of state of Nagaland. I think Roman alphabet (ABC-XYZ) should be adopted for all languages. This will bring greater unity and ease to all.

I don't understand the "Bhaiyaa" call. What is it ? I think Hindi should be treated as national language.

Calling names like "Bhaiya(s)" is a derogatory address for Hindi speaking people working as laborers, hackers and other artisans in Mumbai...

Now for making fun few uncivilized people use this abusive word for all north-Indians. A regional political party-people used this slang aloud when they beat-up north Indian laborers and eventually dragged them onboard north-bound trains.

Such abusive words should be removed from the pages of any website that longs for growing among Indians.