Sanskrit to replace Urdu at Uttarakhand railway stations

DEHRADUN: The Railway ministry is now doing its bit to promote the use of Sanskrit in Uttarakhand. Railway officials have decided to replace the Urdu language with Sanskrit on all signboards at platforms. The signboards which have names of railway stations written in Hindi, English, and Urdu will now be written in Hindi, English, and Sanskrit. The decision, according to sources, has been taken as per provisions of the Railway Manual, which says that names of the railway stations should be written in Hindi, English and in the second language of the state. In 2010, the Uttarakhand government had become the first in the country to give Sanskrit the status of second official language. (IANS)

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