The Madras High
Court today ordered issuance of notices to the Centre and governments of Odisha
and Kerala on a PIL challenging the grant of classical language status to Oriya
and Malayalam languages.
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| Madras High Court |
The Ministry of
Culture of the Centre vide a notification on March 11, 2014 had granted the
status to these languages.
A Division bench of
the Court comprising of Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M M
Sundresh also ordered the registry to tag the PIL filed by R Gandhi, an
advocate, with the similar petitions challenging grant of classical status to
Telugu and Kannada languages.
The court had
earlier allowed Karnataka Government to implead itself as a party to the case.
In his PIL, Gandhi
submitted that he was not against any Indian language getting classical status
provided it satisfied the criteria.
He contended that
Ministry of Culture and Home affairs should adhere to criteria laid down to
determine the eligibility of a language to be considered for classification as
a “Classical Language” as per the notification of the Centre on November 25,
2005.
As per the criteria,
the status should be given to the language with “high antiquity of its early
texts/recorded history over a period of 1500-2000 years”, he contended.
The claim of any
language for classical language has to be evaluated in terms of the criteria
which are really based on recommendations of the Gopichanth Nareng Committee
appointed by Government of India, he contended.
He also sought for a direction from the
court to the Centre to strictly adhere to implement the criteria laid
down in the 2005 notification for determining the eligibility of languages to
be considered as “Classical Language” before declaring classical status to any
language.
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