Raj govt orders to phase out Urdu, Persian words used in policing

JAIPUR: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Rajasthan government has directed the state police to replace traditional Urdu and Persian words used in the police proceedings with Hindi ones, said officials.

- HT Correspondent

"A letter was recently received from the state Home minister Jawahar Singh Bedham regarding the replacement of the Urdu terms of the police proceedings with Hindi. Therefore, the ADGP (Training) is being hereby ordered to gather the necessary inputs on the Urdu terms from all the police stations of the state and take necessary actions," read a copy of the order issued by the Director General of Police Utkal Ranjan Sahoo on November 22. HT has seen a copy of the order.

Bedham's original note to the DGP was sent in October.

"From a long time, whether it's in files or in official letters, we've been using words of Urdu and Parsi. However, our youth now opt for Sanskrit or Hindi or English as third language, and the use of Urdu has virtually ended. That's why I've written a letter to the DGP that we use Hindi -- which is our national language -- in our official work," Bedham said to a news agency on October 4.