 bill no 168 of  2015 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2015 byshri nishikant  dubey, mp a billfurther to amend the constitution of indiabe  it enacted by parliament in the sixty-sixth year of the republic of india as follows:—short title1 this act may be called the constitution (amendment) act, 2015 2 in the eighth schedule to the constitution, existing entries 1 to 22 shall be re-numbered as entries 2 to 23,  respectively, and before entry 2 as so re-numbered, the following entry shall be inserted, namely:—amendment of eighth schedule5"1 angika" statement of objects and reasonsangika is one of the most ancient and richest languages of india angika is considered as one of the oldest languages of the world angika is written in the anga lipi, kaithi and devanagri scripts angika is a language of the anga region of india which covers more than 58,000 kilometers of area falling within the states of bihar, jharkhand and west bengal angika is spoken in most of the metros like mumbai, delhi, kolkata and bengaluru and also spoken in most of the industrial cities like durgapur, vodadara, surat, patna, ranchi, jamshedpur, bokaro and other parts of the country angika is a language spoken in eastern part of bihar, santhal parganas of jharkhand and maldah district of west bengal as per 2001 census, angika is spoken by more than thirty million of the indian population and around fifty million  people worldwide angika is also spoken in cambodia, vietnam, laos, malaysia and other southeast asian countries besides this, a sizeable angika speaking population is also residing in gulf countries, united states and united kingdomin view of above, in order to promote and protect the culture and traditions of the'angika' language, it is necessary that the language be given its due recognition by including it in the eighth schedule to the constitutionhence this billnew delhi;nishikant dubeyjuly 2, 2015 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 nishikant dubey, mp)gmgipmrnd—1419ls(s3)—15-07-2015