Ninety-second Amendment of the Constitution of India

The Constitution (Ninety-second Amendment) Act, 2003
Parliament of India
  • An Act further to amend the Constitution of India.
CitationANNEXURE (A)

TEXTS OF THE CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT ACTS

(First to Ninety-fourth)[1]
Territorial extentIndia
Passed byLok Sabha
Passed22 December 2003
Passed byRajya Sabha
Passed23 December 2003
Assented to7 January 2004
Commenced7 January 2004
Legislative history
First chamber: Lok Sabha
Bill titleConstitution (One-hundredth Amendment) Bill, 2003
Introduced byLal Krishna Advani
Introduced18 August 2003
Committee reportReport of the Standing Committee on Home Affairs
Final stages
Reported from conference committee5 December 2003
Related legislation
21st and 71st Amendments
Summary
Included Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santali as official languages by amending the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution
Status: In force

The Ninety-second Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Ninety-second Amendment) Act, 2003, amended the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution so as to include Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santali languages, thereby raising the total number of languages listed in the schedule to 22. The Eighth Schedule lists languages that the Government of India has the responsibility to develop.[1]

The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution originally included 14 languages.[2] Sindhi was included by the 21st Amendment, enacted in 1967; and Konkani, Meitei and Nepali were included by the 71st Amendment in 1992, raising the total number of languages to 18.

  1. ^ http://lawmin.nic.in/coi/EIGHTH-SCHEDULE.pdf Archived 8 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ "The Constitution of India (1949)" (PDF). Lok Sabha Secretariat. p. 1189. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2013. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.