 bill no 109 of  2016 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2016 byshri nishikant dubey, mp a billfurther to amend the constitution of indiabe  it enacted by parliament in the sixty-seventh year of the republic of india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called the constitution (amendment) act, 2016short title and commencement5(2) it shall come into force on such date as the central government may, by notificationin the official gazette, appoint2 for article 343 of the constitution, the following article shall be substituted, namely:—substitution of new article for article 343"343 the national language of the union shall be hindi in devanagari script"national language of the unionamendment of article 3483 in article 348 of the constitution, for clause (1), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—"(1) notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this part, until parliament by law otherwise provides—5(a) all proceedings in the supreme court and in every high court shall be both in hindi and english; and(b) the authoritative texts—(i) of all bills to be introduced or amendments thereto to be moved in either house of parliament or in the house or either house of the legislature of a state;10(ii) of all acts passed by parliament or the legislature of a state and of all ordinances promulgated by the president or the governor of a state; and(iii) of all orders, rules, regulations and bye-laws issued under this constitution or under any law made by parliament or the legislature of a state, shall be in hindi language15 statement  of  objects  and  reasonsin the british period, in order to establish their sway over india and for their administrative convenience, british imposed english on the people of india this is nothing short of an irony that even after sixty-nine years of independence, linguistically we continue with that colonial mindset after independence, our constitution makers had expressed the mass sentiment towards hindi through the constitution keeping the linguistic diversity in mind, an arrangement was made for using english for official purposes for the next fifteen years alongside, in the constitution, president was entrusted with the power to constitute official language commission to resolve the language related issues and promotion of hindi thereafter, commission was constituted, committees were formed with umpteen numbers of reports and several orders were issued and attempts to implement the provisions of official language commission were made but, eventually, the expected results could not be achieved activities being undertaken in regard to official language remain a mere formality and no concrete effect can be seen on the ground due to government policies, english evolved rapidly as official language whereas the hindi, the language of the masses, remained neglectedit is unfortunate that english remains the primary language for judicial, parliamentary and other administrative functions even today, we are not in a position to preserve and promote our rich language whereas, the languages of all the rich countries are continuously flourishing, we are backtracking in the level of our own language hindi is the only language that can unite this diverse nation in one strand the utmost need of the hour is an initiative on our part to promote the use of hindi it is necessary to take concrete measures so that hindi language can get its due respect we cannot get expected results only from the constitutional commission and official language commission what we need today is to entrust the status of national language upon hindi and make a way for its evolutionhence this billnew delhi;nishikant dubeyapril 11, 2016 annexureextracts from the constitution of india$\phi\circ\phi$ part xvii official language chapter i—language of the union343 (1) the official language of the union shall be hindi in devanagari scriptofficial language of the unionthe form of numerals to be used for the official purposes of the union shall be the international form of indian numerals(2) notwithstanding anything in clause (1), for a period of fifteen years from the commencement of this constitution, the english language shall continue to be used for all the official purposes of the union for which it was being used immediately before such commencement:provided that the president may, during the said period, by order authorise the use of the hindi language in addition to the english language and of the devanagari form of numerals in addition to the international form of indian numerals for any of the official purposes of the union(3) notwithstanding anything in this article, parliament may be law provide for the use, after the said period of fifteen years, of—(a) the english language, or (b) the devanagari form of numerals, for such purposes as may be specified in the law    chapter iii—language of the supreme court, high courts, etc348 (1) notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this part, until parliament by law otherwise provides—(a) all proceedings in the supreme court and in every high court, language to be used in the supreme court and in the high courts and for acts, bills, etc(b) the authoritative texts—(i) of all bills to be introduced or amendments thereto to be moved in either house of parliament or in the house or either house of the legislature of a state,(ii) of all acts passed by parliament or the legislature of a state and of all ordinances promulgated by the president or the governor of a state, and(iii) of all orders, rules, regulation and bye-laws issued under this constitution or under any law made by parliament or the legislature of a state, shall be in the english language     lok sabha———— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india————(shri nishikant dubey, mp)gmgipmrnd—209ls(s3)—02-05-2016