The Kannada Language Comprehensive Development (Amendment) Act, 2024 – 110304

The Government of Karnataka, vide notification no. DPAL 01 SHASANA 2024, dated 26^th February 2024, had amended the Kannada Language Comprehensive Development Act, 2022.

Consequent to the amendment, in sub-section (6) of section 17 of The Kannada Language Comprehensive Development Act, 2022, the following has been substituted:

“The name boards of Commercial, Industrial and Business Undertakings, Trusts, Counseling centers, Hospitals, Laboratories, Amusement Centers, Hotels etc., functioning with the approval and sanction of the Government or Local Authorities, shall ensure that their name board displays 60% in Kannada language and Kannada shall be displayed in the upper half of the name board”.

Now, the Government of Karnataka, vide notification dated 11^th March 2024, has fixed 12^th March 2024, as the effective date for the above-said amendment in The Kannada Language Comprehensive Development Act, 2022.