Srinagar: In another move viewed as part of India's wider Hindutva-driven assimilation policy, the authorities in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir have announced new measures to expand the use of Hindi across the administration, marking a sharp shift from the territory's traditional linguistic and cultural landscape.

According to media reports, the occupation authorities stated that official websites of various departments and related portals are being made trilingual - in Hindi, Urdu, and English - under the pretext of 'inclusivity' but with the apparent aim of mainstreaming Hindi in all official work.

In a written reply to BJP legislator Ranbir Singh Pathania, the regime informed the Assembly that all official correspondence received in Hindi is now being responded to bilingually - in both Hindi and English - in line with the Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Act, 2020, which controversially recognized Hindi as one of the official languages of the occupied territory.

Observers see the move as part of a systematic effort to marginalize Urdu - the historical and administrative language of Jammu and Kashmir - and to align the region's institutions with the broader Hindutva cultural framework propagated by the BJP and RSS.