IEP Chandigarh, December 13
Following the proposal of the Haryana government to amend the Haryana Official Language Act, 1969 on the use of Hindi language in the courts and tribunals subordinate to the Punjab and Haryana High Court; the Governor of Haryana, Sh. Bandaru Dattatraya today approved the notification issued by the Haryana Information, Public Relations and Languages Department for the purpose under sub-section (2) of section 1 of the Haryana Languages (Amendment) Act, 2020 (13 of 2020) which will be applicable from April 1, 2023.
The government has taken this decision keeping in mind the convenience of the public. As t he objective of justice in a democracy is that the litigant should get speedy justice in his own language and he should not remain speechless during the proceedings. For the Haryana Official Language Act, 1969 was passed by the state legislature to adopt Hindi as the language used for official purposes and was made the official language of the state under the Haryana Official Languages Act, 1969.
Since then, the Hindi language is mostly being used as the language of administration. The Punjab Official Language Act, 1967 was amended by Punjab Act No. 11 of 1969, which added sections 3A and 3B, that work in all civil courts and criminal courts subordinate to the Punjab and Haryana High Court and all revenue courts and tribunals; will be done in Punjabi.
A similar amendment has also been brought in the Haryana Official Language Act, 1969 to provide that work in all courts, subordinate to the High Court and by all tribunals constituted by the state government shall be done in Hindi in Devanagari script and Section 3A has been included in the Haryana Official Language Act, 1969, under which any proceeding, judgement, decree or order passed in all civil courts and criminal courts subordinate to the Punjab and Haryana High Court and all revenue courts and tribunals shall be done in Hindi.
