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O.M. No. 13034/26/90-OL (C), dated 26.6.1991
Subject:— Use of Electro-mechanical facilities in Devanagari in Central Government Offices.
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The undersigned is directed to say that the Committee of Parliament on Official Language, constituted under section
4(i) of the Official Languages Act, 1963, submitted its IInd report relating to use of Electro-mechanical facilities in Devanagari
in Central Government Offices, to the President in July, 1987. The decisions taken on the recommendations made therein
after taking into consideration the views of the various Central Ministries/Departments and States/Union Territories were
forwarded to all the Ministries/Departments for information and necessary action vide this Department's Resolution
No. 12015/34/87-OL(TC) dated 29.3.1990.
2. Attention of the Ministries/Departments of the Central Government and their attached and subordinate offices,
Public Sector Undertakings, nationalised banks etc. is invited once again to the following of the said decisions, with which
they are all concerned, for taking action as follows:
2.1 Percentage of Devanagari typewriters in the offices located in Regions 'A’, 'B' and 'C'
The Committee of Parliament on Official Language has recommended that by 1990, the percentage of Devanagari
typewriters should be at least 90% in offices located in region 'A', 66.66% in offices located in region 'B' and 25% in offices
located in region 'C'. This is applicable to pin-point, bulletin, portable and electronic typewriters also besides ordinary
typewriters. It should also be ensured that every office has at least one Devanagari typewriter and purchase of additional
typewriters should be made according to the percentage proposed above.
2.2. The recommendation of the Committee has been accepted with the modification that the Department of Official
language may issue orders for attaining the targets proposed by the Committee by the end of 1994-95. In the light of the
recommendation of the committee, the previous instructions of the Department of Official Language that every office
should have at least one Devanagari typewriter, may be reiterated in these orders and it should be ensured that the targets
prescribed by the committee are achieved by the end of 1994-95 by increasing the existing number of Devanagari typewriters
every year by about 20%. The arrangements for training in Hindi stenography and Hindi typing may also be made accordingly.
These targets should also be reflected every year in the annual programme for the implementation of the Official Language
Policy.
2.3. In this connection, Department of Official Language has issued so far O.M. No. I/14013/9/89-OL(A-1) dated
9.2.1990 and O.M. No. 14012/19/90-OL(C) dated 28.1.1991 to increase the percentage of Devanagari typewriters and Hindi
typists and Hindi stenographers. Copy of this Department's Office Memorandum No. 14012/19/90-OL(C) dated 28.1.1991 is
enclosed for ready reference.
2.4. All the Ministries/Departments are again requested that they should ensure an action as per the above Office
memorandum. They should bring this to the notice of their attached and subordinate offices and undertakings, nationalised
banks etc. owned and controlled by them and ensure their compliance.
O.M. No. 12015/31/92-OL (T.C.), dated 15.5.1992
Subject:— Information regarding "Telex No." of bilingual electronic telex machine.
Instructions have been issued vide the Department of Official Language O.M. No. 12015/9/88-OL(TC) dated 28th
March, 1988 to all the Central Government Ministries/Departments etc. to the effect that they should purchase or get on
lease only bilingual (Hindi-English) electronic teleprinter/telex machines. The offices who at present have roman teleprinter/
telex machines on lease, should request the Department of Telecommunication to install immediately bilingual electronic
teleprinter/telex in place of those machines. Thereafter, these orders were reiterated vide O.M. No. 12015/18/90-OL(TC)
dated 25.5.1990. In pursuance of these orders, bilingual electronic teleprinter/telex machines have been/are being installed
in many Central Government Offices.
2. In accordance with the Official Language Policy messages on these bilingual electronic equipment should be
transmitted mainly in Hindi. This required that the officer writing a telex message should have prior information about the
bilingual electronic telex machine installed at the receiving end so that he could prepare it in Hindi for being received in
Hindi only at the destination of the message.
3. With a view to ensuring use of these bilingual electronic telex machines mainly in Hindi, it has been decided that all
the central Government Ministries/Departments, Attached and Subordinate offices, Undertakings owned or controlled by