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The Constitution of India in English 2026: page 235

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204                  THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                            (Part XVII—LANGUAGE)

              (d) the form of numerals to be used for any one or more specified
       purposes of the Union;
              (e) any other matter referred to the Commission by the President
       as regards the official language of the Union and the language for
       communication between the Union and a State or between one State and
       another and their use.
       (3) In making their recommendations under clause (2), the Commission
shall have due regard to the industrial, cultural and scientific advancement of
India, and the just claims and the interests of persons belonging to the
non-Hindi speaking areas in regard to the public services.
       (4) There shall be constituted a Committee consisting of thirty members,
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of whom twenty shall be members of the House of the People and ten shall be
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members of the Council of States to be elected respectively by the members of
the House of the People and the members of the Council of States in
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accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the
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       (5) It shall be the duty of the Committee to examine the
recommendations of the Commission constituted under clause (1) and to report
to the President their opinion thereon.
       (6) Notwithstanding anything in article 343, the President may, after
consideration of the report referred to in clause (5), issue directions in
accordance with the whole or any part of that report.
                      CHAPTER II.—REGIONAL LANGUAGES
       345. Official language or languages of a State.—Subject to the
provisions of articles 346 and 347, the Legislature of a State may by law adopt
any one or more of the languages in use in the State or Hindi as the language or
languages to be used for all or any of the official purposes of that State:
       Provided that, until the Legislature of the State otherwise provides by
law, the English language shall continue to be used for those official purposes
within the State for which it was being used immediately before the
commencement of this Constitution.
       346. Official language for communication between one State and
another or between a State and the Union.—The language for the time being
authorised for use in the Union for official purposes shall be the official
language for communication between one State and another State and between
a State and the Union:

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