 bill no  76  of  2010 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2010 byshri satpal maharaj, mpa 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 5 to 9 shall be renumbered as entries 6 to 10, respectively, and before entry 6 as so renumbered, the following entry shall be inserted, namely:—5"5 garhwali";(ii) after entry 10 as so renumbered, the following entry shall be inserted, namely:—"11 kumaoni"; and10(iii) existing entries 10 to 22 shall be renumbered as entries 12 to 24, respectively statement  of  objects  and  reasonsthe eighth schedule to the constitution recognizes twenty-two languages as national languages of india being spoken and written by the citizens it is believed that education, culture and intellectual pursuits get created and develop around these languages but it is unfortunate that languages like garhwali and kumaoni spoken and written by millions of people having distinct culture have not yet been included in the eighth schedulethe garhwali language is being spoken since ancient times in the kedarkhand region of central himalaya however, when exactly the people started using this language in writings can be correctly answered by  linguistics only prior to 13th century, when the hindi language was not in existence, the official work of the state of garhwal, spreading from saharanpur to himachal, was being done in garhwali language the donation box inscription dating back to the year 1335 during the reign of the emperor jagatpal in devprayag temple, the 15th century script of ajaypal in devalgarh, the inscriptions on copper plates found at various places like badrinath, maldyul etc, are all evidences to prove that the garhwali language is one of the oldest languages according to dr haridutt bhatt shailes, literature of 10th century is also available in this languageour country is a multilingual country some of the languages have been successful in maintaining their existence and dignity with time while other have been struggling hard to save their existence and dignity due to lack of adequate facilities of propagation garhwali and kumaoni are two such languages amongst themkeeping in view the sentiments of the people of cental himalayan region and linguaphiles, garhwali and kumaoni languages should be accorded the status and honour of national languages by including them in the eighth schedule to the constitution it is urgently required that necessary steps should be taken to propagate these languages an academy for the development of these languages should also be set up on the lines of hindi academy, urdu academy, punjabi and sindhi academysuch a step will not only help in propagation of these languages but would also save the ancient himalayan culture and heritage from becoming extincthence this billnew delhi;satpal maharajjuly 12, 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 maithilli 11 malayalam 12 manipuri 13 marathi 14 nepali 15 oriya 16 punjabi 17 sanskrit 18 santhali 19 sindhi 20 tamil 21 telugu 22 urdu lok  sabha———— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india————(shri satpal maharaj, mp)gmgipmrnd—3059ls(s3)—28-07-2010