Ninety-second Amendment of the Constitution of India

The Constitution (Ninety-second Amendment) Act, 2003
Parliament of India
Long title An Act further to amend the Constitution of India.
Citation	ANNEXURE (A) TEXTS OF THE CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT ACTS (First to Ninety-fourth)[1]
Territorial extent	India
Passed by	Lok Sabha
Passed	22 December 2003
Passed by	Rajya Sabha
Passed	23 December 2003
Assented to	7 January 2004
Commenced	7 January 2004
Legislative history
First chamber: Lok Sabha
Bill title	Constitution (One-hundredth Amendment) Bill, 2003
Introduced by	Lal Krishna Advani
Introduced	18 August 2003
Committee report	Report of the Standing Committee on Home Affairs
Final stages
Reported from conference committee	5 December 2003
Related legislation
21st and 71st Amendments
Summary
Included Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santali as official languages by amending the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution
Status: In force

The Ninety-second Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Ninety-second Amendment) Act, 2003, amended the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution so as to include Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santali languages, thereby raising the total number of languages listed in the schedule to 22. The Eighth Schedule lists languages that the Government of India has the responsibility to develop.^[1]

The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution originally included 14 languages.^[2] Sindhi was included by the 21st Amendment, enacted in 1967; and Konkani, Meitei and Nepali were included by the 71st Amendment in 1992, raising the total number of languages to 18.