In other news, names of railway stations written in Urdu on platform signboards in Uttarakhand are to be now replaced by Sanskrit.

According to a report by TOI, Deepak Kumar, Chief Public Relations Officer, Northern Railway, said, "As per the Railway Manual, the name of a railway station on platform sign boards should be written in the second official language of the state concerned after Hindi and English.”

In 2010, Sanskrit was made the second official language under the rule of then CM Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, who is the current Union HRD Minister.

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According to the rules of Railway Manual, the changes should have been made as soon as Sanskrit was made the second official language of the state in 2010. 

Many signboards in Uttarakhand are written in Urdu as they are from the time when the state was part of Uttar Pradesh and UP's second official language is apparently Urdu. 

Also, there is not much difference in Sanskrit and Hindi as both use the same Devnagri script which means nothing much will change in the spelling of name on the signboards.

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