From the Archives - dated May 28, 1965

May 28, 2015 12:12 am | Updated 03:50 pm IST

Non-Hindi States' plea not met and it was declared that there should be no imposition of Hindi in the matter of correspondence between non-Hindi speaking States and the Centre.

Non-Hindi States’ plea not met

The proposals to amend the Official Languages Act formulated by the Cabinet Sub-Committee on official languages and approved by Cabinet a few days back do not meet the important demands of non-Hindi speaking States, in some respects, it is learnt. The non-Hindi speaking States wanted three things. In the first place, there should be no imposition of Hindi in the correspondence between non-Hindi speaking States and the Centre, as well as non-Hindi speaking States and Hindi speaking States. Second, English should be used for all official purposes as it was being done before January 26, 1965. It was also their demand that English should continue to be used in Parliament until the non-Hindi speaking legislatures agreed to its replacement by Hindi. The proposals now finalised, it is learnt, only meet the demand that there should be no imposition of Hindi in the matter of correspondence between non-Hindi speaking States and the Centre, and non-Hindi speaking States and Hindi speaking States. Even without this provision, non-Hindi speaking States are likely to ignore any communication sent to them in Hindi. The recently finalised proposals provide that English will continue to be used in the Central administration for specified purposes and not for all official purposes.

Indo-Soviet ties irk China

China, which reacted angrily last week to the Prime Minister, Mr. Lal Bahadur Shastri’s successful visit to the Soviet Union, in the form of a commentary in the Hsinhua news agency returned to the subject to-day [May 27] with a strong attack directed, this time, more against the Kremlin than against India. It has accused the Soviet Union and India of being “bedfellows in opposing socialist China” and said the Soviet leaders were pursuing a policy of forming “an anti-China alliance” with India. The fact that to-day’s [Tokyo] attack was made in the form of an article by “Observer” in the authoritative People’s Daily , organ of the Chinese Communist Party, reflects the seriousness with which China is viewing the development of Indo-Soviet relations. The pseudonym “Observer” is generally believed to be that of a very high ranking party official possibly Mr. Mao Tse-tung himself. The article said the reason why Mr. Shastri had obtained money and “political capital in plenty” on his trip and why the Soviet leaders had showered “grand praise” on him was because he was “a rare anti-China cavalier” and the Russians were bent on carrying on their anti-Chinese policies.

Mysore-Bangalore air-link

Mysore was to-day [May 27] put on the air map of India thanks to The Hindu, marking the fulfilment of a long-felt need of the region. The Hindu ’s Bangalore-Mysore daily passenger air service, operated by a Dakota, was inaugurated formally by the Chief Minister of Mysore, Mr. S. Nijalingappa, at a function this afternoon at the Mandakalli airstrip. The air service was hailed as one helping to accelerate the industrial development of Mysore city and its neighbourhood and boosting tourist traffic in the region, besides other benefits accruing therefrom.

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