New Delhi: The Supreme Court has been moved for a direction to the Centre to make study of Hindi compulsory for all students of Classes I-VIII, so that all the Indian citizens can easily communicate with each other.
In his PIL BJP member Ashwini Kumar Upadhyaya said it will promote fraternity, unity and national integration, the great golden goals as set out in Preamble of the Constitution.
At present, when a North Indian visits East, West or South India, he becomes a foreigner, as he cannot read, write and understand their local language.
The petitioner said besides the fact that Hindi is the official language as has been enunciated in the Article 343, it is spoken and used in major part of the country. There are only few States where there is only regional language is spoken.
At the time of framing and adoption of the Constitution, it was envisaged that English will continue to be used for executive, judicial and legal purposes for an initial period of 15 years i.e. till 1965 only, said the petitioner.
