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Option 2 : Article 343 (1)

The correct answer is Article 343 (1).

  • Article 343(1) in The Constitution Of India 1949
    • ​The official language of the Union shall be Hindi in the Devanagari script.
    • The form of numerals to be used for the official purposes of the Union shall be the international form of Indian numerals.
  • Article 343(2), 1949 in the Indian constitution of India states that the English language shall continue to be used as the official language.

  • The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution consists of the following 22 languages:-
    • (1) Assamese, (2) Bengali, (3) Gujarati, (4) Hindi, (5) Kannada, (6) Kashmiri, (7) Konkani, (8) Malayalam, (9) Manipuri, (10) Marathi, (11) Nepali, (12) Oriya, (13) Punjabi, (14) Sanskrit, (15) Sindhi, (16) Tamil, (17) Telugu, (18) Urdu (19) Bodo, (20) Santhali, (21) Maithili (22) Dogri. 
  • Of these languages, 14 were initially included in the Constitution. The Sindhi language was added in 1967.
  • Thereafter three more languages viz., Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali were included in 1992. Subsequently, Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali were added in 2004.
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