What is in news : A recent data revealed that the Bengaluru is the most linguistically diverse district in the country

Details :

• Data culled from the 2011 census
• City is home to 107 scheduled and non-scheduled languages, attesting to its cosmopolitanism
• Second place is Pune
• There are 121 scheduled and non-scheduled languages in India
• According to data, Kannada was listed as the mother tongue of 44.62 per cent of the city’s population. Among scheduled languages, Kannada shares space with Hindi, Maithili, Malayalam, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Urdu, Konkani, Santali, Marathi, Manipuri and Nepali.
• The non-scheduled languages include English, Kabuli, Pashto, Tibetan, Arabic, Nishi, Mundari, Lushai, Nicobarese, Sherpa, languages from Nagaland among others.
• In the south alone, data shows that Kerala is not very diverse and neither is Tamil Nadu, barring Kanchipuram and Chennai
• Bengaluru’s growth is also due to
  • Land use policies Reputation for infrastructure
  • Thriving IT and construction sectors
  • Government’s inability to create an alternative to the state capital that is grappling with a host of infrastructure problem