guliya
June 6th, 2003, 12:02 AM
Like to know your views. The article says half of delhi population is punjabi's so it shoudl be a official language. What can we do to stop this!!
2ND LANGUAGE STATUS
Champions of Punjabi will have to
wait till June-end
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, June 3
The Union Government has agreed in principle to give second language status to Punjabi and Urdu in the NCT of Delhi. Deputy Prime Minister and Union Home Minister L. K. Advani told this to a delegation of Akali leaders who called on him today. He said that the Official Languages Bill would be sent for Presidential assent by June 6 after its technical clearance from the Union Ministry of Law.
Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) Tarlochan Singh and president of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) Paramjit Singh Sarna, who were members of the delegation that met Mr Advani, told mediapersons that the Centre had agreed to the proposal by the Government of NCT of Delhi to grant second language status to Urdu and Punjabi and that it would be sent to the Union Ministry of Law for clearance.
Mr Tarlochan Singh said the decision was a result of persistent efforts by the NCM. “The NCM was insisting that since 50 per cent of the population in the Capital speaks Punjabi, it should be granted the second language status,” he told reporters. The delegation included, among others, Members of Parliament from the NCT of Delhi V. K. Malhotra, Madan Lal Khurana and legislators H. S. Balli and Jagdish Mukhi. Today’s decision comes three years after the Delhi Legislative Assembly passed a Bill that granted second official status to these languages in the Capital. The Bill was cleared by the Sheila Dikshit ministry after it was passed by the Assembly in April 2000 and sent for the mandatory approval of the Union Government.
The two Akali groupings–led by Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal)’s Avtar Singh Hit and DSGMC president Paramjit Singh Sarna–had launched separate campaigns over the demand. Mr Tarlochan Singh said he had organised today’s meeting of Akalis with Mr Advani and pressed that both Urdu in the Persian script and Punjabi in Gurmukhi, spoken mostly by religious minorities, be accorded official status.
The NCM Chairman said the NCT of Delhi had been part of Punjab till the beginning of the 20th century and that most Punjab laws, especially pertaining to revenue, were still in vogue in the National Capital Region (NCR). Half of the population of the NCT of Delhi, Mr Singh said, spoke Punjabi and most of them had migrated from Lahore and Punjab.
2ND LANGUAGE STATUS
Champions of Punjabi will have to
wait till June-end
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, June 3
The Union Government has agreed in principle to give second language status to Punjabi and Urdu in the NCT of Delhi. Deputy Prime Minister and Union Home Minister L. K. Advani told this to a delegation of Akali leaders who called on him today. He said that the Official Languages Bill would be sent for Presidential assent by June 6 after its technical clearance from the Union Ministry of Law.
Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) Tarlochan Singh and president of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) Paramjit Singh Sarna, who were members of the delegation that met Mr Advani, told mediapersons that the Centre had agreed to the proposal by the Government of NCT of Delhi to grant second language status to Urdu and Punjabi and that it would be sent to the Union Ministry of Law for clearance.
Mr Tarlochan Singh said the decision was a result of persistent efforts by the NCM. “The NCM was insisting that since 50 per cent of the population in the Capital speaks Punjabi, it should be granted the second language status,” he told reporters. The delegation included, among others, Members of Parliament from the NCT of Delhi V. K. Malhotra, Madan Lal Khurana and legislators H. S. Balli and Jagdish Mukhi. Today’s decision comes three years after the Delhi Legislative Assembly passed a Bill that granted second official status to these languages in the Capital. The Bill was cleared by the Sheila Dikshit ministry after it was passed by the Assembly in April 2000 and sent for the mandatory approval of the Union Government.
The two Akali groupings–led by Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal)’s Avtar Singh Hit and DSGMC president Paramjit Singh Sarna–had launched separate campaigns over the demand. Mr Tarlochan Singh said he had organised today’s meeting of Akalis with Mr Advani and pressed that both Urdu in the Persian script and Punjabi in Gurmukhi, spoken mostly by religious minorities, be accorded official status.
The NCM Chairman said the NCT of Delhi had been part of Punjab till the beginning of the 20th century and that most Punjab laws, especially pertaining to revenue, were still in vogue in the National Capital Region (NCR). Half of the population of the NCT of Delhi, Mr Singh said, spoke Punjabi and most of them had migrated from Lahore and Punjab.