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REGISTERED NO. D. 221

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 2

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 30] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY MAY, 14, 1965/VAISAKHA 24, 1887

Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed

as a separate compilation

RAJYA SABHA

The following Bills were introduced in. the Rajya Sabha on the 14th May. 1965: —

I

BILL NO. X OF 1965

A Bill further to amend the Constitution of India.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows: —

Short title.

1. This Act may be called the Constitution (Amendment) Act, 1965.

2. For article 120 of the Constitution, the following article shall be substituted, namely: —

Substitu-

tion of

article

120.

"120. Notwithstanding anything in Part XVII, but subject to the provisions of article 348, business in Parliament shall be transacted in Hindi or in English or in any of the other langu- ages except Sanskrit, specified in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution."

123 GoflEx.-l.

(469)

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

Article 120 of the Constitution, as it stands at present, provides that Hindi or English can be used for transaction of business in Parliament, provided that a Member who cannot adequately express himself in Hindi or in English may be permitted by the Presiding Officer to address the House in his mother tongue. As the regional languages of India have been made official languages in the respec- tive States and as the Parliament comprises of representatives from all the States in India, it is proper that provision should be made for the use of all the languages specified in the Eighth Schedule to fhe Constitution, except Sanskrit which Is not a spoken language, for transaction of business in Parliament. This is necegsary to ensure equality of status to all the languages mentioned in the Eighth Schedule, and to give a popular and democratic orientation to the work of Parliament.

Hence thi* Bill

p. U SEN GUPTA.

n

BILL NO. XI OF 1965

A bill further to amend the Constitution of India.

BE it "nacted by Parliament in the Sixteenth Year of the Republic

of India as follows: —

1. (1) This Act may be called the Constitution (Amendment)

Act, 1965.

Short title and com- mence- ment.

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Govern-

ment may, by notification In the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. In the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution,—

(a) entry 11 of List II—State Xiist shall be omitted;

Amend- ment of Seventh Schedule, (b) after entry 24 of List III—Concurrent List, the follow-

ing entry shall be inserted, namely: —

"24A. Education including universities, subject to the

provisions of entries §3, 6,4, 65 £nd 66 of List I,"

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

After the attainment of Independence, there has been consider- able expansion in the field of education in the country. But in terms of standard and quality of education, in spite of a vast increase in the number of universities, colleges and schools, there has set in a steady and deplorable deterioration. Much of this malady is attri- butable to the lack of a co-ordinated and well planned national policy of education. Education is now an exclusively State subject, and educational policies differ from State to State. This is a very unsatisfactory situation, and the time has come when education should be taken out of the exclusive purview of the States and put In the Concurrent List so that Parliament and the Central Govern- ment would be in a position effectively to formulate and pursue a sound educational policy which may be applied uniformly through- out the country at all levels. Hence this Bill.

SHARDA BHARGAVA

III

BILL No. VIII OP 1965

A bill further to amend the Constitution of India.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixteenth Year of th"

Republic of India as follows: —

1. This Act may be called the Constitution (Amendment) Act, Short title.

1965.

2. For article 120 of the Constitution, the following article shall

be substituted, namely: —

Substitu- tion of article 120.

"120. Notwithstanding anything in Part XVII, but subject to the provisions of article 348, business in Parliament shall be transacted in Hindi or in English or in any of the other langu- ages specified in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution."

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

Article 120 of the Constitution, as it 3tands at present, provides that Hindi or English can be used for transaction of business in Parliament, provided that a Member who cannot adequately express himself in Hindi or in English may be permitted by the Presiding Officer to address the House in his mother tongue. As the regional languages of India have been made official languages in the respec- tive States, and as the Parliament comprises of representatives from all the States in India, it is proper that provision should be made for the us& of all the languages specified in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution for transaction, of business in Parliament. This will also ensure equality of status for all the languages mentioned in the Eighth Schedule, and give a popular and democratic orienta- tion to the work of Parliament.

Hence this Bill.

BHUPESH GUPTA.

B. N. BANERJEE,

Secretary.

FEINTED IN INDIA BY THE GENERAL MANAGER, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA PRESS, MINTO ROAD, NEW DELHI AND PUBLISHED BY THE MANAGER OF PUBLICATIONS, DELHI, 1965 GMGIPND—LSI—T23 G. of I. Ex.—19-5"⁶5— 2885