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The Eighth Schedule of the Constitution defined 14 languages in 1950: [4] Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. [5] In 1967, the 21st amendment to the constitution added Sindhi to the Eighth Schedule.
The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India lists the official languages of the Republic of India. At the time when the Constitution was enacted, inclusion in this list meant that the language was entitled to representation on the Official Languages Commission , and that the language would be one of the bases that would be drawn upon to ...
Amendment of Eighth Schedule In the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution— (a) existing entry 3 shall be re-numbered as entry 5, and before entry 5 as so re-numbered, the following entries shall be inserted, namely:— "3. Bodo. 4. Dogri."; (b) existing entries 4 to 7 shall respectively be re-numbered as entries 6 to 9;
The Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India, as of 1 December 2007, lists 22 languages, [86]: 330 which are given in the table below together with the regions where they are used. [ 92 ] Fastest growing languages of India — Hindi (first), Kashmiri (second), Gujarati & Meitei / Manipuri (third), Bengali (fourth) — based on 2011 census ...
The Seventy-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Seventy-first Amendment) Act, 1992, amended the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution so as to include Konkani, Meitei (officially called "Manipuri") and Nepali languages, thereby raising the total number of languages listed in the schedule to eighteen.
The Eighth Schedule lists languages that the Government of India has the responsibility to develop. [1] The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution originally included 14 languages. [2] The 71st Amendment, enacted in 1992, included three more languages, i.e. Konkani, Meitei (Manipuri) and Nepali.
The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes comprise about 16.6% and 8.6%, respectively, of India's population (according to the 2011 census). [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 lists 1,108 castes across 28 states in its First Schedule, [ 13 ] and the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950 lists 744 tribes across ...
The Fifth Schedule contains provisions as to the administration and control of the Schedule Areas and Scheduled Tribes. Para 7 of the Schedule vests Parliament with plenary powers to enact laws amending the Schedule and lays down that no such law shall be deemed to be an amendment of the Constitution for the purposes of article 368.