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AS INTRODUCED IN LOK SABHA

Bill No. 112 of 2018

THE CONSTITUTION (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2018 By

SHRI SUSHIL KUMAR , M.P.

A BILL further to amend the Constitution of .

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. This Act may be called the Constitution (Amendment) Act, 2018. Short title. 2. In the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution, existing entries 10 to 22 shall be Amendment of renumbered as entries 11 to 23, respectively and before entry 11 as so renumbered, the the Eighth Schedule. 5 following entry shall be inserted, namely:— “10. Magahi.”. STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS The also known as Magadhi is a language widely spoken in the - region and has more than seventeen million speakers. The language has been derived from the ancient Magadhi and is also believed to be the language spoken by . Magahi also has the distinction of being the official language of the court of the Mauryans in which edicts of the king Ashoka were composed. Also Magahi, having its own script called ‘’, was used as official language at that time and many legal, administrative and private records pertaining to the period have been preserved by the people even to this day. The land of Magadh holds a precious position in the history of ancient India and had been workplace of a number of great personalities including Lord Buddha and . Further, language, a language similar to Magahi is already been taught in the Magadh University. Unfortunately, this precious language, despite being spoken by a large number of persons, being the language of Lord Buddha himself and having had the status of rajbhasha during the reign of emperor Ashoka, has not been recognized as one of the languages under the Eighth Schedule to the . Therefore, it is need of the hour to provide the due recognition to the language through its inclusion in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution. Hence this Bill.

NEW DELHI; SUSHIL KUMAR SINGH March 7, 2018.

2 ANNEXURE

EXTRACT FROM THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

EIGHTH SCHEDULE [Articles 344(1) and 351] Languages 1. Assamese 2. Bengali 3. Bodo 4. Dogri 5. Gujarati 6. 7. 8. Kashmiri 9. Konkani 10. Maithili 11. 12. Manipuri 13. Marathi 14. Nepali 15. Oriya 16. Punjabi 17. 18. Santhali 19. Sindhi 20. Tamil 21. Telugu 22. * * * * *

3 LOK SABHA

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A BILL further to amend the Constitution of India.

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(Shri Sushil Kumar Singh, M.P.)

MGIPMRND—238LS(S3)—03-07-2018.