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207                     THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                                (Part XVII—LANGUAGE)

        350B. Special Officer for linguistic minorities.—(1) There shall be a
Special Officer for linguistic minorities to be appointed by the President.
        (2) It shall be the duty of the Special Officer to investigate all matters relating
to the safeguards provided for linguistic minorities under this Constitution and
report to the President upon those matters at such intervals as the President may
direct, and the President shall cause all such reports to be laid before each House of
Parliament, and sent to the Governments of the States concerned.]
        351. Directive for development of the Hindi language.—It shall be the
duty of the Union to promote the spread of the Hindi language, to develop it so
that it may serve as a medium of expression for all the elements of the
composite culture of India and to secure its enrichment by assimilating without
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interfering with its genius, the forms, style and expressions used in Hindustani
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and in the other languages of India specified in the Eighth Schedule, and by
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drawing, wherever necessary or desirable, for its vocabulary, primarily on
Sanskrit and secondarily on other languages.
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