Official Language and Symbol – 1993
1993
The Bodo language was recognized as an associate state official language of Assam before the Bodo Accord. In the Bodo concentrated areas in Assam, the Bodo Sahitya Sabha, which was established in 1952, contributed to the acceptance of the Bodo language as a medium of instruction in primary schools in 1963 and secondary school in 1968.[fn]S.K. Mukherjee, “The Reorganization of Assam and the Bodo Movement,” in Reorganization of North-East India Since 1947, ed. B Datta Ray and S. P. Agrawal (New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1996).[/efn_note] The 1993 accord would have made the Bodo language an official language of the BAC area. Because the BAC area was never finally demarcated and the BEC was almost defunct, there is no official language.