 bill no  xiv of  2015 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2015 a billfurther to amend the constitution of indiabe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-sixth year of the republic of india as follows:—1 (i) the act may be called the constitution (amendment) act, 2015short title, and commencement(ii) it shall come into force at once statement of objects and reasonspali is one of the most ancient and richest languages of india sanskrit being the language of the elite classes comprising a small section of the population and pali being simple of communicate, lord buddha consciosly used the latter to preach his philosophical teachings to the masses the entire buddhist literature is in the pali language a significantly large number of people in india, particularly the buddists, speak pali the constitution of india has recognized buddhists as one of the five religious minorities in india it is gratifying that india is known to the world as the land of buddha in the context of grave challenges faced by the human society, the entire world is attracted towards the buddha's teachings of peace and non-violence unfortunately, this precious language embodying the cultural and philosophical heritage of india has still not found a place in the eighth schedule of the indian constitution as a result, on the practical ground, the union public service commission (upsc) has removed pali language as one of the optional subjects from the list of languages, closing the doors of the upsc examination for the thousands of relatively disadvantages and backward candidates who used to offer pali as an optional subjecthence this billdr bhalchandra mungekar 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 maithli 11 malayalam 12 manipuri 13 marathi 14 nepali 15 odia 16 punjabi 17 sanskrit 18 santhali19 sindhi 20 tamil 21 telugu22 urdu rajya  sabha———— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india————(dr bhalchandra mungekar, mp)gmgipmrnd—567rs(s3)—27-04-2015