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1. The Commission was to consist of a chairman and other members representing the different languages specified in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.
2. The Committee was to consist of 30 members (20 from Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha), to be elected in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.
3. These include: (a) resolutions, general orders, rules, notifications, administrative or other reports or press communications issued by the Central government; (b) administrative and other reports and official papers laid before Parliament; and (c) contracts and agreements executed, licences, permits, notices, etc, issued by the Central government or by a corporation or a company owned by the Central government.
4. For language in Parliament and a state legislature, see the respective Chapters (i.e., 22 and 33).
5. This provision was added by the 7th Amendment Act of 1956 on the recommendation of the States Reorganisation Commission.
6. Ibid.
7. In 1976, the Supreme Court declared Tamil Nadu’s pension scheme to anti-Hindi agitators as unconstitutional.
8. The 96th Amendment Act of 2011 substituted "Odia” for "Oriya”.
9. This information is down loaded from the website of the Committee of Parliament on Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
10. The Hindu, "Odia gets classical language status”, February 20, 2014.
11. Ibid.