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Uttarakhand stations to replace Urdu with Sanskrit on railway signboards Sanskrit was made the second official language of Uttarakhand in 2010 during the chief ministership of Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank Current Affairs :Names of railroad stations written in Urdu on stage billboards in Uttarakhand will currently be written in Sanskrit, the second official language of the slope state. The move is with regards to the Railway Manual which says the name of a railroad station on stage billboards ought to be written in the second official language of the state worried after Hindi and English, Chief Public Relations Officer, Northern Railway, Deepak Kumar said. “Rather than Hindi, English and Urdu, the names of railroad stations on stage billboards across Uttarakhand will presently be written in Hindi, English and Sanskrit,” he said. “Since Sanskrit is the second official language of Uttarakhand, the names of railroad stations written in Urdu on stage billboards in the state wil...