J&K will have 5 official languages, Lok Sabha clears bill

J&K will have 5 official languages, Lok Sabha clears bill

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Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the J&K Official Languages (Amendment) Bill — which makes Kashmiri, Dogri and Hindi, apart from Urdu and English, as official languages of J&K. Section 47 of the J&K Reorganisation Act states that the legislative assembly may by law adopt any one or more of the languages in use in UT of J&K or Hindi as the official language or languages.

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