The minister said that a study team constituted under the leadership of the director of the department recently visited Andhra Pradesh to study the process of declaring Urdu as a second official language in that state. “The study team visited Andhra Pradesh on 19.01.2026 and 20.01.2026 to review the criteria followed for declaring Urdu as the second official language in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Following the receipt of the Dr Mohan Alva report, the Government had sought the opinion of the law department on declaring Tulu as a second official language. The law department opined that in Karnataka, the official administrative language is Kannada, with English being an additional administrative language. Story continues below this ad“Article 345 of the Constitution of India allows any state government to declare a language as the official language of that state.