JANAKPURDHAM, Jan 23: The Madhesh Province Government introduced a bill to the Province Assembly on Wednesday to officially recognize multiple languages for administrative and official use, nearly seven years after the establishment of the province.
Madhesh Province’s Minister for Education and Culture Rani Kumari Sharma Tiwari presented the bill.
Provincial Assembly members swearing in ceremony in four langu...
Currently, Nepali is the sole official language of the province. The new bill seeks to include Maithili, Bhojpuri, Bajjika, Hindi and English as the official working languages in addition to Nepali in government offices, public institutions, and other government bodies throughout the province. Furthermore, the provincial government will have the ability to publish the provincial gazette in these languages in addition to Nepali, which is written in the Devanagari script.
In Sub-section (b) of Section 2 of the bill, the term ‘official working language’ is mentioned as 'Maithili, Bhojpuri, Bajjika, Hindi and English used in written or oral form in government offices of Madhesh Province'.
