ABSTRACT
Ours is a democratic country in which the people and their welfare are supreme. In such a situation it becomes necessary that official work is carried out in a language spoken by the common people. Maybe Mahatma
Gandhi had the same thing in his mind when he said, ‘... The first and the greatest social service we can render is to revert to our vernaculars, to restore Hindi to its natural place as the national language and to carry out provincial proceedings in our respective vernaculars and national proceedings in Hindi.’ Today while the official language of the Union is Hindi in Devanagri script, the multilingual character of India has been maintained.
