Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh has ordered its Superintendent of Police to avoid using Persian and Urdu words and phrases and instead use simpler Hindi words.
According to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, police should incorporate “simple Hindi words” while filing complaints, probing and research reports, and other formalities.
Around 350 words like ‘adam pata’ (untraceable), ‘tarmeem’ (amendment), ‘ishtgassa’ (petition), ‘muddayi’ (complainant), ‘istgasa’ (complaint letter), and the fateful ‘dastyab’ will now be deleted from the police lexicon in Madhya Pradesh.
The police had been using Urdu and Persian terms since the British rule when all government matters were conducted in Urdu. Several such words have been changed in Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, it is for the first time Madhya Pradesh has given such instructions.
“The process of changing such words which are not in practice will be started here like in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan,” Home Minister Dr Narottam Mishra was quoted as saying by NDTV.
However, Congress said the decision is not so much to simplify the vocabulary but it is done to send across a political message. According to Congress, dropping these words will be against the ideals of inclusiveness.
“It took them 18 years to understand the meaning of these words? They should understand the meaning of murder, rape, then only the situation would improve because as per NCRB (National Crime Records Bureau), the situation is getting worse. This is just politics,” Congress spokesperson Narendra Saluja was quoted as saying by NDTV.
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