Amidst campaign recently launched by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) to press for the use of Marathi in all banking transactions, the state government on Tuesday issued a five-page notification in this regard. The government wants the use of Marathi language by the Central government offices, establishments, corporations and public undertakings working in the state and engaged in banking, telephone, post, insurance, railway, metro, mono-rail, airline, gas, petroleum, taxation.
More importantly, in a serious bid to counter Shiv Sena and MNS, the government has instructed these agencies to use the Marathi language and Devnagari script along with English and Hindi languages in all written and oral examinations, which are conducted at the time of the appointment of the various posts.
Further, the Marathi language and Devnagari script will have to be used in all correspondences, communications and in oral and written transactions and interaction with the people in the state. Besides, all the instructions, public notices, notice boards, indicators, and name-plates will have to be displayed for the information of the general public in Marathi language and Devnagri script.
These agencies are expected to use the Marathi language in all offline and online services and also in arrival and departure indicators and timetable of the railway trains, metro, mono-rail and flights, train name boards, coach or bogie numbers, name of stations terminals, ports and airports, notice and instruction boards and public announcements systems.
Senior officer told DNA,’’ Marathi” is the official language of Maharashtra under the Maharashtra Official languages Act, 1964 and Ammendment Act, 2015 and its jurisdiction is whole of the state. So, as per Tri- language formula of the Central Government, it has been mandatory to use Regional language along with English and Hindi in all offices and establishments of the Central Government in the state of Maharashtra and other offices of the Central Government which provides banking, telephone, post, insurance, railway, metro, mono-rail, airline, gas, petroleum, taxation services to the people in the State.’’
Furthermore, the government wants the Central government offices and other agencies to incorporate regional language in the Service Rules of their officers and employees and make provisions in recruitment rules about the mandatory qualification of Marathi language. These offices and agencies have been instructed to arrange the Marathi language workshops and training programmes for the officers and employees in order to use Marathi language completely and make easy communication and interaction with local public.
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