 bill  no 112 of  2018 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2018 byshri sushil kumar singh, mp a billfurther to amend the constitution of indiabe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-ninth year of the republic of india as follows:— 1 this act may be called the constitution (amendment) act, 2018"10 magahi" statement of objects and reasonsthe magahi language also known as magadhi is a language widely spoken in the bihar-jharkhand region and has more than seventeen million speakers the language has been derived from the ancient magadhi prakrit and is also believed to be the language spoken by gautama buddha magahi also has the distinction of being the official language of the court of the mauryans in which edicts of the king ashoka were composed also magahi, having its own script called 'kaithi', was used as official  language at that time and many legal, administrative and private records pertaining to the period have been preserved by the people even to this daythe land of magadh holds a precious position in the history of ancient india and had been workplace of a number of great personalities including lord buddha and mahavira further, pali language, a language similar to magahi is already been taught in the magadh university  unfortunately, this precious language, despite being spoken by a large number of persons, being the language of lord buddha himself and having had the status of rajbhasha during the reign of emperor ashoka, has not been recognized as one of the languages under the eighth schedule to the constitution of india therefore, it is need of the hour to provide the due recognition to the language through its inclusion in the eighth schedule to the constitutionhence this billnew delhi;sushil kumar singhmarch 7, 2018 annexure extract from the constitution of indiaeighth schedule[articles 344(1) and 351]languages1assamese2bengali3bodo4dogri5gujarati6hindi7kannada8kashmiri9konkani10maithili11 malayalam12manipuri13marathi14nepali15oriya16punjabi17sanskrit18santhali19sindhi20tamil21telugu22urdu    ———— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india————(shri sushil kumar singh, mp)mgipmrnd—238ls(s3)—03-07-2018