Commission and Committee of Parliament on Official Language
(1) The President shall, at the expiration of five years from the commencement of this Constitution and thereafter at the expiration of ten years from such commencement, by order constitute a Commission... to make recommendations to the President as to—(a) the progressive use of the Hindi language for the official purposes of the Union; ... (4) There shall be constituted a Committee consisting of thirty members, of whom twenty shall be members of the House of the People and ten shall be members of the Council of States... to examine the recommendations of the Commission... and to report to the President their opinion thereon.
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This is the constitutional machinery behind India's periodic language-policy debates and adjustments — official language policy isn't meant to be a one-time fixed decision, but subject to ongoing structured review involving both an expert Commission and elected Parliamentary representatives.
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