TamilNadu Chief Minsiter has written a letter to the Prime Minister of India Mr Narendra Modi to have an urgent amendment  made of an instruction that asks government departments to use Hindi for tweets and other social media posts and make English as the medium of posting the information. In a letter shown below-:

“It has come to my notice that the Ministry of Home Affairs has issued two Office Memoranda, the first by the Official Language Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs and the second by the Co-ordination Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs. These Office Memoranda direct that official accounts on social media like Facebook, Twitter, blogs, Google and You Tube which at present use only English should compulsorily use Hindi, or both Hindi and English,  with Hindi being written above or first. This makes the use of Hindi mandatory and English optional.

As you are aware, as per the Official Languages Rules, 1976, communications from a Central Government office to a State or Union Territory in Region "C" or to any office (not being a Central Government office) or person in such State shall be in English. This provision has been introduced following the introduction of a mandatory proviso to Section 3(1) of the Official Languages Act, 1963, by an amendment in 1968 which states as follows:- Provided that the English language shall be used for purposes of communication between the Union and a State which has not adopted Hindi as its official language”.

It is a known fact that in the state of Tamil Nadu - Hindi is  not used, preferred or taught in many schools and the Prime Minister’s office is yet to respond to her letter for change in the medium from Hindi to English.