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Section 3 of the Official Languages Act cancels the expiration of the 15-year period for the use of English.

Note that the Act was adopted in English and Hindi. The Act was amended in 1976 to establish the Official Languages Rules, which were in turn amended in 1987. They felt that the federal government was trying to impose Hindi across the country, including the south, and preferred to continue using English, which they found more "acceptable" because, unlike Hindi, it was not associated with any particular ethnic group.Īccordingly, in 1963 the Federal Parliament passed the Official Languages Act, which legally established Hindi and English as the languages used in Congress, while leaving states and territories free to choose their own official languages. It proved impossible to replace English with Hindi, however, because of strong opposition from the southern states, where Dravidian languages were spoken.

After that time, Hindi was supposed to become the sole official language of the Union. The Constitution adopted in 1950 stipulated that English and Hindi would be used for the Union's official business for a period of fifteen years (s.