Sanskrit was made the second official language of Uttarakhand in 2010 during the chief ministership of Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
Current Affairs:Names of railroad stations written in Urdu on stage billboards in Uttarakhand will currently be written in Sanskrit, the second official language of the slope state.
The move is with regards to the Railway Manual which says the name of a railroad station on stage billboards ought to be written in the second official language of the state worried after Hindi and English, Chief Public Relations Officer, Northern Railway, Deepak Kumar said.
“Rather than Hindi, English and Urdu, the names of railroad stations on stage billboards across Uttarakhand will presently be written in Hindi, English and Sanskrit,” he said.
“Since Sanskrit is the second official language of Uttarakhand, the names of railroad stations written in Urdu on stage billboards in the state will be supplanted with those in Sanskrit,” the authority said.
The names of railroad stationsin Uttarakhand on stage billboards still show up in Urdu as the vast majority of them have a place with the period when the state was a piece of Uttar Pradesh where Urdu is the second official language. Notwithstanding, according to rules of the Railway Manual fitting change ought to have been made on these billboards in 2010 after Sanskrit was made the second official language of the state, he said.
Sanskrit was made the second official language of Uttarakhand in 2010 during the main ministership of Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, who is currently Union HRD Minister. Nonetheless, very little will change in the spelling of the names of railroad stations in Uttarakhandwhen they are written in Sanskrit as both Hindi and Sanskrit utilize the equivalent Devnagri content.
Aditi Mehta 