Rights of Linguistic Minorities
Rights of Linguistic Minorities
Role
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Name
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Affiliation
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Principal Investigator
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Dr.Gyanendra Kumar sahu
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Asst.Professor Utkal University
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Content Reviewer
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Dr.Gyanendra Kumar sahu
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Asst.Professor Utkal University
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Description of Module
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Description of Module
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Subject Name
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Law
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Paper Name
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Law and social transformation in India
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Module Name /Title
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Rights of Linguistic Minorities
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Module No.
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XII
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Rights of Linguistic Minorities:
Linguistic
minority is a class of people whose mother
tongue is different from that of the majority in the State or Part of a
State. The constitution provides for the protection of the interests of
linguistic minorities.
Article 350A: Duty on the state to Endeavour to provide adequate
facilities for instruction in the mother tongue at the primary stage of education to children belonging to linguistic
minority.
Article 347: Provides for the use of majority language in the administration .If a demand the population
of a state desire the use of any language spoken by them to be recognized by
the state.
Article 350: gives right to every person to submit a representation for
the redress of any grievance to any officer or authority of the Union or a
State in any of the language used in the Union or a State.
Article 350B: Empowers the president to appoint a Special officer for Linguistic Minorities. It is the duty of the
Special officer to investigate all matters relating to the safeguards provided
for Linguistic Minorities.
Article 29
Protection of Interests of minorities:
(i) Any Section of the citizens residing in the territory of India or any part
thereof having a distinct language, script or culture of its own shall have the
right to conserve the same.
(ii) No citizen shall be denied admission into any
educational institution maintained by the state of receiving aid out of state
funds on grounds only of religion, race, caste, language or any of them.
(iii) The Minorities have the right to establish the
educational institutions basing on religion or language of their choice.
Article 30(1).
Thus, a rule made by the Gujarat University
prescribing Gujarati or Hindi as the
sole medium of instruction and examination in its affiliated colleges was held
to infringe the
right of the
Anglo-Indian under Article
30(1) insofar
as their mother tongue
was English and they
would be prevented
thereby from teaching
through the English medium in their own institutions.
The most significant case on this
point is the
D.A.V. College, Bhatinda
V.
State of Punjab (AIR 1971) case. By
a notification, The
Punjab Government compulsorily
affiliated certain colleges to the Punjabi University which
prescribed Punjabi in the Gurmukhi script as the
sole and exclusive
medium of instruction
and examination for
certain courses
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