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and bye-laws issued under the Constitution in all the State official languages. 5.162 The Legislative Department. Ministry of Law and Justice have made regulations
for translation of these acts, etc., into all official languages of the States through the agencies set up by them. The translations undertaken by the State Governments are approved by the Official Language(Legislative) Commission in the arrangements
of Law and Justice. The expenditure incurred is reimbursed to the states. The Ministry
has noted that the work of translating of acts, etc., into Urdu has been entrusted to Jammu and Kashmir Government. The Committee recommends that the work of translation of acts, etc., into Urdu should be finalized and the translating agency Committee
up by the Jammu and Kashmir Government should be enabled to finish the job quickly by allotment of adequate funds. Once these proposals art completed, these translated laws will be available to every one, including the litigants throughout the set
country.
The documents are sometimes filed by a party in his own language and the authorities insist that its authenticated translated copies should also be attached. The Committee has been informed that in some places translation facilities are not available 5.163.
this causes a great deal of hardship to the parties. The committee, therefore, recommends that adequate translation facilities should be made available, against normal payment, particularly at district and lower levels. The Committee also at the and
time feels that sometimes the party may be so poor as to find it hard to pay an same
sum for getting the documents translated. it will meet the ends of justice if, in such cases, the financial burden of translation is borne by the authorities and not by the party. additional
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5.164. Some of the States, particularly Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, were issuing copies in Devnagari script of the documents written in Urdu. Witnesses pointed out that such a transliteration resulted in many errors of spelling and mispronunciation, sometimes making it difficult to place complete reliance on the copy, particularly for official and judicial purposes. Copies should be made available in the script in which the original is
on Urdu