Bobde was addressing the All India Students Conference organized by Sanskrit Bharati.

Former Chief Justice of India Sharad Bobde on Friday advocated making Sanskrit the official language of the country, including its use in the courts, saying that according to reports published in newspapers in 1949, the architect of the Constitution, Dr. BR Ambedkar, had also proposed it.

He said that as per the law, Hindi and English are used as official languages ​​in the courts, while every chief justice receives representations, seeking approval of the respective regional languages, which are now used at the district level. Judiciary and in some High Courts.

Bobde was addressing the All India Students Conference organized by Sanskrit Bharati.

He said that the official language at the High Court level is English, though many High Courts have to accept applications, petitions and even documents in regional languages.

Bobde said, “I don't think this issue should remain unresolved.

It is unsolved since 1949.

There is a great danger of communication gap in governance and administration of justice, although this is not the place to discuss it.

He said, “On September 11, 1949, there was news in the newspapers that Dr. Ambedkar had taken the initiative to make Sanskrit the official language of the Union of India.

The vocabulary of Sanskrit is similar in many of our languages.

I ask myself the question why Sanskrit cannot be made an official language, as proposed by Dr. Ambedkar.

The former Chief Justice said that making Sanskrit the official language has nothing to do with any religion, because 95 percent of the language has nothing to do with any religion but philosophy, law, science, literature, sculpture, astronomy etc.

He said, “This (Sanskrit) language does not belong to South or North India and is fully capable of secular use.

A NASA scientist found it suitable for computers, who wrote a research paper on 'Description of knowledge in Sanskrit and artificial intelligence'.

He also said that it can be used to convey the message in as few words as possible.

Citing a survey, Bobde said that 43.63 per cent citizens speak Hindi, while only six per cent speak English, which is spoken by only three per cent people in rural areas.

He said that 41 percent of the rich people speak English, while the number of people speaking this language among the poor is only two percent.

Bobde said that Sanskrit is probably the only language that can co-exist with our regional languages, 22 of which are included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.

The former Chief Justice said, “I am saying this after consulting language experts, who agree that Indians use many Sanskrit words while communicating with each other in regional languages.

Every regional language including Urdu has words of Sanskrit origin.

Languages ​​like Assamese, Hindi, Telugu, Bengali and Kannada contain up to 60-70 percent Sanskrit words.

However, Bobde admitted that adoption of Sanskrit language is not possible overnight and may take many years.

He said, “This language has to be taught in such a way that it does not have any religious implications.

The way English is taught in vocational courses.

A vocabulary has to be made and this language has to be added to the Official Language Act.

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