UP Govt Hospitals to have signboards in Urdu too: CM Yogi Adityanath

Lucknow: Complying with the government order to have Urdu language in all health sectors in the state, the Yogi Adityanath-led government has announced that all the government hospitals in Uttar Pradesh will have signboards and nameplates written in Urdu besides in Hindi as well. 

The government directive in this regard followed a complaint by Unnao resident Mohammed Harun, who maintained that many government departments were skipping Urdu on signage despite it being the state's second official language.

All the Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) of the state have been directed to ensure that nameplates, signboards, and other information on display in the hospitals must also be written in Urdu along with Hindi.

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The CMOS has been advised through the government order to direct that all the government hospitals, district hospitals, primary health centres, community health centres, and other establishments of the health department must carry the information in Urdu also on signboards, nameplates, and other signages.

In his complaint, Unnao resident Mohammed Harun maintained that despite Urdu having been declared the state's second official language, many government departments, including the health department, are not following the government orders.

If this government order is implemented, 167 district hospitals, 2,934 primary health centres, and 873 community health centres will have Urdu on their display boards along with Hindi. UP adopted Urdu as the second language through the UP Official Language (Amendment) Act, I989, which had added Section 3 to the UP Official Languages Act, 1951.

The directive comes at a time when the BJP government is being criticised over its decision to conduct a survey of unrecognized madrassas in Uttar Pradesh.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that Yogi said that the world accepted the power of Yoga and traditional alternative medicines during the COVID-19 pandemic when the "fatalities in India were half of that of the United States of America."

He was speaking after inaugurating 'Kshemavana,' a wellness center set up by Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Institute of Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences (SDMINYS) at Nelamangala on the outskirts of Bengaluru.

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