Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India

The Constitution (Twenty-first Amendment) Act, 1967
Parliament of India
  • An Act further to amend the Constitution of India.
Citation21st Amendment
Territorial extentIndia
Passed byRajya Sabha
Passed4 April 1967
Passed byLok Sabha
Passed7 April 1967
Assented to10 April 1967
Commenced10 April 1967
Legislative history
First chamber: Rajya Sabha
Bill titleConstitution (Twenty-first Amendment) Bill, 1967
Introduced byYashwantrao Chavan
Introduced20 March 1967
Related legislation
71st and 92nd Amendments
Summary
Included Sindhi as an official language by amending the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution
Status: In force

The Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Twenty-first Amendment) Act, 1967, amended the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution so as to include Sindhi as one of the languages, thereby raising the total number of languages listed in the schedule to fifteen. 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] The 71st Amendment, enacted in 1992, included three more languages, i.e. Konkani, Meitei (Manipuri) and Nepali. The 92nd Amendment, added Bodo, Dogri, Santhali and Maithali in 2003, raising the total number of languages to 22.

  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  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.