India, Feb. 11 -- Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday announced the extension of translation services in the House to six additional languages-Bodo, Dogri, Maithili, Manipuri, Sanskrit and Urdu.

Until now, translation services have been provided in ten languages-Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Tamil and Telugu, along with Hindi and English.

Birla said that efforts are being made to gradually extend the service to all languages based on available human resources.

According to Schedule 8 of the Constitution, 22 languages, including Sanskrit, are officially recognised.

Earlier, on June 28, 2023, the Lok Sabha Secretariat issued a circular announcing a plan for real-time, two-way interpretation in all 22 ...