Official language recommendations can prompt presidential directions on use of Hindi, English and intergovernmental communication. Article 344 provides for a Commission, appointed by the President at prescribed intervals, composed of a Chair and members representing languages in the Eighth Schedule, to recommend on the progressive use of Hindi, restrictions on English, the language for Article 348 purposes, forms of numerals for specified Union purposes, and other presidentially referred matters concerning official language and intergovernmental communication. A thirty-member parliamentary Committee examines those recommendations and reports to the President, who may then issue directions in accordance with that report.
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Official language recommendations can prompt presidential directions on use of Hindi, English and intergovernmental communication.
Article 344 provides for a Commission, appointed by the President at prescribed intervals, composed of a Chair and members representing languages in the Eighth Schedule, to recommend on the progressive use of Hindi, restrictions on English, the language for Article 348 purposes, forms of numerals for specified Union purposes, and other presidentially referred matters concerning official language and intergovernmental communication. A thirty-member parliamentary Committee examines those recommendations and reports to the President, who may then issue directions in accordance with that report.
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