[lg policy] Railway tickets in Karnataka will soon be printed in Kannada too

[Harold Schiffman]

 Railway tickets in Karnataka will soon be printed in Kannada too
<https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/railway-tickets-karnataka-will-soon-be-printed-kannada-too-77212>
For now, only tickets printed at station counters will be in Kannada, while
tickets booked online are yet to be made available in the language.

   - TNM Staff <https://www.thenewsminute.com/author-articles/TNM-Staff>
   - Thursday, March 01, 2018 - 11:21

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Railway tickets will now be printed in Kannada, in addition to Hindi and
English. Kannada activists have been demanding this for some time now, and
this move by the South Western Railway officials has brought cheer to them.

However, only tickets printed at station counters will be available in
Kannada, while tickets booked online are yet to be made available in the
language. Unreserved tickets with information in Kannada will be available
in computerized passenger reservation counters in Bengaluru, reported Times
of India.
<https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/railway-tickets-in-kannada-soon/articleshow/63115562.cms>

The Indian Railways’ passenger amenities committee had approved a proposal
to print tickets in the local language, in addition to English and Hindi
from January 1, 2018.

Karnataka is not alone in demanding the inclusion of local languages, as
states like Tamil Nadu have also demanded that tickets and official forms
be available in the local language and have pushed for a two-language
policy of English and the local language instead of Hindi.

Pro-Kannada activists took to Twitter to welcome the move.
#ServeInMyLanguage was trending on the social media platform.

In July last year, members of the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike had defaced
Hindi signs in metro stations across Bengaluru. Activists of the Vedike had
demanded that the three-language policy be removed and that the state
government implement a two-language policy of Kannada and English only.

Subsequently, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had written to the Centre, asking
it to order the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) to take
down the sign boards in Hindi.

However, members of the Vedike are still upset that despite the promise,
BMRCL still has not taken down the Hindi signboards.


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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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