Duties of Enforcement Officer

The Enforcement Officer in order to ensure the compliance of general measures prescribed under the provisions of this Act shall perform following duties:- (i) conduct periodical inspection in the Government Departments and the Local Authorities under sub-section (1) and (5) of section 17; (ii) conduct periodical inspection to ensure compliance of sub-section (6) to (10) of section 17; (iii) The inspection reports shall be submitted to the Committees concerned in such manner as may be prescribed. (5) The Boards, Advertisements, Receipts, Bills, Notices, etc., in connection with any project undertaken by the Government or implemented with any kind of consideration, grant concession from Government or allied Institutions or Local Authorities shall be primarily in Kannada. (6) The upper half portion of boards displaying the names of Commercial, Industrial and Business Undertakings, Trusts, Counseling Centre‟s, Hospitals, Laboratories, Amusement Centers and Hotels etc., functioning with the approval and sanction of Government or Local Authorities, shall be in Kannada and lower half can be in any other language. (7) As far as possible all the Industrial and other consumer products manufactured within and sold in the State shall bear the product name and direction for use, if any, in Kannada apart from any other language. (8) In all the boards displaying advertisements and notices published for the information of general public in the State, a fixed percentage of the content shall be in Kannada. The classification of advertisements or percentage of Kannada portions of advertisements to be displayed shall be as prescribed by the State. (9) Every industrial establishment in the State owned by the State and Central Government, Public Sector Undertakings, Banks and Private Industries having more than one hundred employees shall establish,- (a) „Kannada Cell‟ headed by senior employee of the organization having knowledge of Kannada for the purpose of usage of Kannada Language in day-to-day work functions of the organization and to carry out such other functions as may be prescribed. (b) „Kannada Kalika Ghataka‟ (basic Kannada Teaching Unit) for non-Kannada speaking employees. The Government at the request of such establishments shall provide necessary teaching staff and study materials at their cost. (10) Every person employed in Banks and other Financial Institutions situated within the State of Karnataka shall use Kannada language also in all its communication and correspondence with the public.