In 2010, villagers of Saraghvada in Gujarat’s Junagadh area challenged land acquisition by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). NHAI’s acquisition notification was in Hindi and English. The villagers didn’t understand either and hence weren’t notified. Gujarat High Court cancelled the land acquisition. Court also observed that for the villagers, ‘Hindi language used in the notification is a foreign language’. Junadagh is not Delhi, Coimbatore is not Varanasi and the subcontinent has many linguistic nations (Punjab, Tamil Nadu, etc.), as foreign to each other as Nepal is to Tamil Nadu, coexisting within a common administrative framework called the Indian Union. dnaindia/analysis/column-hindi-english-controversy-and-the-gujarat-model-1997436
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:12:26 +0000
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