Assamese Language Declared Compulsory For All Official Work In State

Assamese language shall be used compulsorily in all official work across the state barring three districts in the Barak Valley and five districts under the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), according to an official notification.

However, issuance of all government notifications, office memoranda, acts, rules, regulations, scheme guidelines, transfer and posting orders shall be both in English and Assamese, it said.

The notification will come into effect from April 15 (‘Bohag’-Assamese New Year).

"Beginning this ‘Bohag,’ Assamese will be the compulsory official language for all government notifications, orders, acts, etc, across Assam. In the districts of Barak Valley and BTRR, Bengali and Bodo languages shall be used, respectively," Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in a post on X.