 bill no 89 of  2012 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2012by kumari saroj pandey, mpa billfurther to amend the constitution of indiabe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-third year of the republic of india as follows:—1 this act may be called the constitution (amendment)  act, 2012"4 chhattisgarhi" statement  of  objects  and  reasonschhattisgarhi language, which is one of the formats of eastern hindi language class, in its semi magadhi form of indo-aryan language is not only being spoken, understood and used by the people in chhattisgarh but also in other states of country chhattisgarh legislative assembly had unanimously recommended on 30 march, 2001 and 13 july, 2007 to include this language in the eighth schedule to the constitution but till date, necessary action has not been taken in this regardfurther, chhattisgarh legislative assembly has unanimously passed the chhattisgarh official language (amendment) bill, 2007 by which the chhattisgarhi language has also been recognized as the official language in addition to hindi in that state the bill was notified as an act of the state on 11 july, 2008in view of the above, it is necessary that the chhattisgarhi language is included in the eighth schedule to the constitutionhence this billnew delhi;saroj  pandeyaugust 3, 2012 annexure extract from the constitution of india eighth  schedule[articles 344(1) and 351] languages1assamese2bengali3bodo4dogri5gujarati6hindi7kannada8kashmiri9konkani10maithili11malayalam12manipuri13marathi14nepali15oriya16punjabi17sanskrit18santhali19sindhi20tamil21telugu22urdu      lok  sabha————— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india—————(kumari saroj pandey, mp)mgipmrnd—2336ls(s3)—23-08-2012