The aims of the new language policy

1. Boost the economic engine by providing broad-based access to higher and professional education with the removal of language discrimination.
2. Facilitate English proficiency as a second language and effective communication tool in all schools, while simultaneously loosening the social hierarchy of English superiority and exclusive English-medium higher education.
3. Create equal opportunity careers for Indian-language medium learners in the judiciary and all other administrative service institutions.
4. Strengthen the ecosystem of Indian languages and literature and their abilities in the global marketplace by modifying the current system that engenders protectionism rather than organic co-operation and flourishing.
5. Revive and enhance a pan-Indic Sanskrit-facilitated technical vocabulary to strengthen Indian languages, and deepen linkages with other Eurasian civilizations to tap classical knowledge bases.
6. Create structures and flows to facilitate cross-pollination and learning of multiple Indian languages to increase the reading base of each language and encourage interoperability and expansion.
7. Facilitate study and research of the social and political sciences in Indian languages in order to balance the dominant Western viewpoint and control of these disciplines.

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