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to the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities how difficult it was to provide adequate machinery including staff to them for implementing the programme. * This position cannot be accepted as irremediable. Until the Government is in a position to explained
the requisite staff, it may well try to get the work done on a job basis from nonofficial translators. 5.61 Gujarat : The Gujarat Government has informed the Commissioner for Linguistic appoint
that the translations need not be undertaken in such minority languages Minorities
speakers were very small in numbers. For the districts, the collectors have been authorised to get laws, etc, translated into minority languages. But we were informed that neither the financial resources nor the physical facilities required have been whose,
for the purpose. This needs to be looked into and necessary action taken to remedy the position. We also recommend that where a local body bag a sizable population of Urdu speakers in any ward, it should get its notifications, bye-laws, etc., provided
into Urdu also. translated
Haryana : The Haryana Government has also issued instructions for publication of important documents, etc., in areas with the requisite population of Urdu speakers but there are complaints of non- implementation. 5.62
In both Punjab and Haryana, where a large section of population still carries on its work in Urdu the Government may consider the advisability of widening the scope of the present instructions to extend the benefit to this section as well. 5.63
Karnataka : Karnataka lost no time in drawing up the list of local areas where the 5.64
minorities conformed to the Population test. Orders were issued for the publication of rules, orders, etc., in the languages of the minorities concerned. The lists were prepared in 1964. The Government specified seven districts and three other areas linguistic
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of the State for the purpose of translation of laws, etc., into Urdu. Publication of Urdu translations in Gulbarga had started in 1969-70. According to the report submitted to the Commis- sioner for Linguistic Minorities, several documents bad been translated. in Urdu and some other minority languages. The latest report states that while publication has started in Dharwar district, similar arrangements have not yet been made,in Bijapur
on Urdu