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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

2018 Indian Parliament Monsoon Session - Rajya Sabha MPs can now speak in 22 Indian languages in House

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday July 18,2018 announced that the Upper House now has a facility for simultaneous interpretation in all 22 Indian languages after addition of five more languages. Members can now also speak in Dogri, Kashmiri, Konkani, Santhali and Sindhi, Naidu said on the opening day of the Monsoon Session of Parliament.

Of the 22 scheduled languages, the Rajya Sabha earlier had simultaneous interpretation services for 17 languages including Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. However, members will have to give a prior notice for the interpreter in the secretariat.

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