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Article 351

Part XVII — Official Language · Constitution of India

Article 351

Directive for development of the Hindi language. It shall be the duty of the Union to promote the spread of the Hindi language, to develop it so that it may serve as a medium of expression for all the elements of the composite culture of India and to secure its enrichment by assimilating without interfering with its genius, the forms, style and expressions used in Hindustani and in the other languages of India specified in the Eighth Schedule, and by drawing, wherever necessary or desirable, for its vocabulary, primarily on Sanskrit and secondarily on other languages.

In plain wordsThe central government has a duty to promote and develop Hindi so it can express India's composite culture, drawing vocabulary primarily from Sanskrit while absorbing forms and expressions from Hindustani and other Indian languages.
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