Login With Google
3-language policy won’t apply to Central offices
Why is it in news?
- The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has said the three language policy is not applicable to offices of the Union government.
- The Ministry gave this response to a question filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
Details:
- The recent CRPF event in Shivamogga district. Here the plaques unveiled to mark the foundation stone-laying ceremony were only in English and Hindi.
- A student in Bengaluru, had filed an application before the Home Ministry under RTI, asking if the Ministry had noticed that the three language policy not being followed at the programme.
- The reply by the Ministry on January 29 stated that “as per the provision of the Official Language Act, 1963, and the Official Language Rules, 1976, the provision of bilingual policy is applicable in the offices of the Central government.”