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I think some of your facts are incorrect:
1) "English is spoken by as many as 5 percent of Indians" Dr. Sutapa Chaudhuri in bolokids.com
2) English in Wikipedia article. Only 8% of the population - not 70%.
India 90,000,000 8% 178,598 65,000,000 second language speakers.
25,000,000 third language speakers Figures include both those who speak English as a second language and those who speak it as a third language. 1991 figures.[25][26] The figures include English speakers, but not English users.
3) Wikipedia article:
The Indian constitution, in 1950, declared Hindi in Devanagari script to be the official language of the union.[5] Unless Parliament decided otherwise, the use of English for official purposes was to cease 15 years after the constitution came into effect, i.e., on 26 January 1965.... An attempt was made in late 1964 to expressly provide for an end to the use of English, but it was met with protests from across the country....
the Act itself was amended in 1967 to provide that the use of English would not be ended until a resolution to that effect was passed by the legislature of every state that had not adopted Hindi as its official language, and by each house of the Indian Parliament.[15]
The current position is thus that the Union government may continue to use English in addition to Hindi for its official purposes[16] as a "subsidiary official language,"
I think some of your facts are incorrect:
1) "English is spoken by as many as 5 percent of Indians" Dr. Sutapa Chaudhuri in bolokids.com
2) English in Wikipedia article. Only 8% of the population - not 70%.
India 90,000,000 8% 178,598 65,000,000 second language speakers.
25,000,000 third language speakers Figures include both those who speak English as a second language and those who speak it as a third language. 1991 figures.[25][26] The figures include English speakers, but not English users.
3) Wikipedia article:
The Indian constitution, in 1950, declared Hindi in Devanagari script to be the official language of the union.[5] Unless Parliament decided otherwise, the use of English for official purposes was to cease 15 years after the constitution came into effect, i.e., on 26 January 1965.... An attempt was made in late 1964 to expressly provide for an end to the use of English, but it was met with protests from across the country....
the Act itself was amended in 1967 to provide that the use of English would not be ended until a resolution to that effect was passed by the legislature of every state that had not adopted Hindi as its official language, and by each house of the Indian Parliament.[15]
The current position is thus that the Union government may continue to use English in addition to Hindi for its official purposes[16] as a "subsidiary official language,"
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