{"id":227817,"date":"2023-02-21T21:05:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T15:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=227817"},"modified":"2023-02-21T21:05:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T15:35:28","slug":"why-not-use-sanskrit-as-our-first-or-second-official-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-not-use-sanskrit-as-our-first-or-second-official-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not use Sanskrit as our first or second official language?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>Why not use Sanskrit as our first or second official language?<\/strong>\u201d published in The Times of India<\/strong> on\u00a021st<\/sup> February 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Indian Polity<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>promoting Sanskrit as official language.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The article discusses measures required to make Sanskrit an official language.<\/p>\n

Why Sanskrit should be made official language?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sanskrit is considered the mother of all Indo-European groups of languages. It is also considered as a secular language and is not associated with any specific religion.<\/p>\n

Sanskrit is eminently suitable because Indians use a large number of Sanskrit words when they use their regional language.<\/p>\n

Moreover, English is the official language of Courts. However, the counsel in court argue in Hindi. Even HCs of some states have allowed to file cases in Hindi.<\/p>\n

English has become our second official language even though hardly 2-3% Indians have fluency over English.<\/p>\n

Hence, Sanskrit along with Hindi shout be promoted by the government.<\/p>\n

What measures are needed to make Sanskrit an official language?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The government should appoint a commission and committee of Parliament on official language as per Article 344.<\/p>\n

Article 344<\/strong> says it shall be the duty of this commission to make recommendations to the President for (a)<\/strong> the progressive use of the Hindi language for the official purposes of the Union; (b)<\/strong> restrictions on the use of English language for all or any of the official purposes.<\/p>\n

Article 351<\/strong> of the Indian Constitution states that it shall be the duty of the government to promote the spread of Hindi, wherever necessary or desirable promote Sanskrit and then other languages.<\/p>\n

Further, Sanskrit language should be promoted through the way of education in its pure form and in phases.<\/p>\n

Sanskrit can be introduced in the government\u2019s services and at the university level while the English language could be retained for international relations and commercial agreements.<\/p>\n

Therefore, we need to use a language which can be understood by all people in India and Sanskrit is the best for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cWhy not use Sanskrit as our first or second official language?\u201d published in The Times of India on\u00a021st February 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Indian Polity Relevance: promoting Sanskrit as official language. News: The article discusses measures required to make Sanskrit an official language. Why Sanskrit should be… Continue reading Why not use Sanskrit as our first or second official language?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-227817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704867586},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}