Andhra Pradesh Official Languages (Amendment) Act, 20021
| [Andhra Pradesh Act No. 2 of 2002] | [25th January, 2002] |
An Act Further to Amend the Andhra Pradesh Official Languages Act, 1966
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Andhra Pradesh in the Fifty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1 The following Act of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 25th January, 2002 and the said assent is hereby first published on the 29th January, 2002 in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette for general information:-
STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
According to Section 2 of the Andhra Pradesh Official Language Act, 1966, (Act No. 9 of 1966) enforced with effect from the 26th January, 1967, Telugu shall be the Official Language of the State of Andhra Pradesh. Under section 7, the State Government may from time to time direct the use of Telugu or any other language or languages, in addition to the Telugu language in the interest of persons speaking such languages, in such areas and for such official purposes of the State and for such period as may be specified. In order to adopt a liberal approach in respect of Urdu speaking minority, the Government have declared Urdu as the second Official Language in eight districts viz., Hyderabad, Kumool, Cuddapah, Nizamabad, Ananthapur, Rangareddy, Medak and Guntur where the population of Urdu speaking people ts more than 10% of the total population as per 1981 census under article 345 of the Constitution of India by suitably amending the said Act.
According to G.O.Ms. No. 371, G.A. (O.L.I.) Department, dated 28-6-1988, Urdu Language may be used for various purposes mentioned therein. In order to provide more facilities to the Urdu speaking population, it has been proposed to extend the facility to use urdu for Official purposes in five more districts viz., Chittoor, Mahabubnagar, Adilabad, Warangal and Nellore Districts in the State.
To achieve the above objective it has been decided to amend section 2 of the Andhra Pradesh Official Language Act, 1966 suitably.
This Bill seeks to give effect to the above decision.
1. Short title and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Andhra Pradesh Official Languages (Amendment) Act, 2002.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette appoint.
2. Amendment of section 2.- In the Andhra Pradesh Official Languages Act, 1966, (Act 9 of 1966) in section 2, for the proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted, namely:-
"Provided that the Urdu Language shall be the Second Official Language in the Districts of Adilabad, Ananthapur, Chittoor, Cuddapah, Guntur, Hyderabad, Kurnool, Mahaboobnagar, Medak, Nellore, Nizamabad, Rangareddy and Warangal."