Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Okay Stalin stated on Sunday (June 6) that the DMK authorities would work in the direction of getting all the languages together with Tamil, listed within the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, the standing of the official language of the union authorities.
Recalling that on at the present time in 2004, the Centre introduced that Tamil can be declared a classical language following the continued efforts of former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, Stalin stated his party-led authorities would proceed to work to embellish the Tamil language increasingly, in accordance to information company PTI.
A notification was issued on October 12, 2004 by the union authorities giving Tamil the classical language standing.
Further, the Chief Minister stated in an announcement, “The DMK government will work resolutely to make all the languages including Tamil listed in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution, the official language of the union government.”
Besides Tamil, Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam are among the many languages declared as classical in India.
According to Article 343 of the Constitution, the official language of the union authorities is Hindi in Devanagari script. The Eighth Schedule has 22 languages together with Hindi.
Article 345 offers with official language or languages of a state. It says a state legislature might by legislation undertake any a number of languages for all or any of the official functions of that state.
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