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 2516 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, NOV. 26, 1949 170 THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA Part XVII. — Official Language. — Arts. 350-351.

Chapter IV.—Special Directives

350. Every person shall be entitled to submit a representation for the redress of any grievance to any officer or authority of the Union or a State in any of the languages used in the Union or in the State, as the case may be.

351. It shall be the duty of the Union to promote the spread of the Hindi language, to develop it so that it may serve as a medium of expression for all the elements of the composite culture of India and to secure its enrichment by assimilating without interfering with its genius, the forms, style and expressions used in Hindustani and in the other languages of India specified in the Eighth Schedule, and by drawing, wherever necessary or desirable, for its vocabulary, primarily on Sanskrit and secondarily on other languages.

Language to be used in representations for redress of grievances.

Directive for development of the Hindi Language.