{"id":7524,"date":"2020-01-20T10:42:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T10:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7524"},"modified":"2020-01-20T10:42:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T10:42:39","slug":"sanskrit-to-replace-urdu-language-on-signboards-at-uttarakhand-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/sanskrit-to-replace-urdu-language-on-signboards-at-uttarakhand-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanskrit to replace Urdu language on signboards at Uttarakhand stations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The railway authorities have decided to replace Urdu\nlanguage on signboards at state platforms with Sanskrit. The signboards will\nnow be written of railway stations in Hindi, English and Sanskrit. The decision\nhas been taken as per provisions of the Railway Manual, which says that names\nof the railway stations should be written in Hindi, English and in the second\nlanguage of the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2010, the Uttarakhand government had become the first in\nthe country to give Sanskrit the status of second official language of the\nHimalayan state. The names of railway stations which will be changed from Urdu\nto Sanskrit are Dehradun, Haridwar, Roorkee, Laksar, Raiwala, Doiwala,\nRishikesh, to name a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The railway authorities have decided to replace Urdu language on signboards at state platforms with Sanskrit. The signboards will now be written of railway stations in Hindi, English and Sanskrit. The decision has been taken as per provisions of the Railway Manual, which says that names of the railway stations should be written in Hindi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[418,70],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2020","tag-indian-railway","tag-uttarakhand-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7526,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions\/7526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7524"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=7524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}