 bill no 63  of 2010 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2010 byshri j p  agarwal, mp a billfurther to amend the constitution of indiabe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-first  year of the republic of  india  as follows:—short title1  this act may be called the constitution (amendment) act, 20102 in the eighth schedule to the constitution,—amendment of the eighth schedule(i) entries 3 to 16 shall be renumbered as entries 4 to 17, respectively, and beforeentry 4 as so renumbered, the following entry shall be inserted, namely:—"3 bhojpuri";(ii) after entry 17 as so renumbered, the following entry shall be inserted, namely:—"18 rajasthani";(iii) existing entries 17 to 22 shall be renumbered as entries 19 to 24, respectively statement  of  objects  and  reasonsthe eighth schedule to the constitution includes twenty-two languages as national languages of india, spoken and written by our people it is presumed that it is around these languages that the education, culture and intellectual pursuits of our people grow and flourishbut it is unfortunate that the languages spoken and written by millions of people with distinct culture such as "bhojpuri" and "rajasthani" do not find place in the eighth schedulebhojpuri is the mother tongue of a large number of people in many parts of bihar, jharkhand and eastern uttar pradesh rajasthani is a language spoken by overwhelming majority of people of rajasthanfor the promotion of literacy and development of these languages, it is necessary that these languages are included in the eighth schedule to the constitutionhence this billnew delhi;j p  agarwalapril  19, 2010 annexure extract from the constitution of india eighth  schedule[articles 344(1) and 351] languages1 assamese 2 bengali 3 bodo 4 dogri 5 gujarati 6 hindi 7 kannada 8 kashmiri 9 konkani10 maithili 11 malayalam 12 manipuri 13 marathi 14 nepali 15 oriya 16 punjabi 17 sanskrit 18 santhali 19 sindhi 20 tamil 21 telugu 22 urdu———— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india————(shri jp agarwal, mp)gmgipmrnd—2658ls (s-4)—30062010