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Classical Language criteria 2024
July 16 , 2024
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- The Central government has decided to change the criteria for giving this special tag.
- India has six classical languages as of now – Tamil, Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Odia.
- It was in 2014 that the government last granted the special tag (Odia).
- There have been demands from some States and literary circles for classical status to languages such as Marathi, Bengali, Assamese and Maithili.
- Of these, the case of Marathi has been pending for more than a decade.
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