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Use of Tamil as official language
April 20 , 2025
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- An advisory was issued by the Tamil Development and Information Department.
- It has gone to the Additional Chief Secretaries, Principal Secretaries, Secretaries, departments at the Secretariat, District Collectors, and heads of departments.
- It was urging them to follow the existing instructions to use Tamil in all official communications and actions.
- It noted previous orders that specified that the government orders should only be issued in Tamil, and that circulars should also be in Tamil.
- Except for some of the exempted cases, all other letters, communications, and correspondence should also be in Tamil.
- The letters received in Tamil from the public should be replied to in Tamil; the notes about them should also be in Tamil.
- The Government employees should sign only in Tamil in all correspondence.
- Additionally, for those correspondence and government orders, an exemption has been granted for issuing them in English.
- The departments at the Secretariat should send them to the Translation Division of the Tamil Development and Information Department to translate them into Tamil.
- Tamil is the official language of the Government of Tamil Nadu, according to the Official Languages Act, 1956.
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