Official scripts of India

There are several official scripts of India. These are the Devangari script (used to write Hindi), the Gurmukhi script (used to write Punjabi), and the Meitei script (used to write the Meitei language).

Devanagari script
The Constitution of India says: "The official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script. The form of numerals to be used for the official purposes of the Union shall be the international form of Indian numerals."

- Part XVII of the Indian Constitution

Being the official script for Hindi, Devanagari is officially used in the Union Government of India as well as several Indian states where Hindi is an official language, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and the Indian union territories of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Gujarat and West Bengal also officially use Devanagari, as these two states recognise Hindi as an additional official language.

The Devanagari script (, romanized: Devanāgarī) is the officially mandated script of the Bodo language in Assam, the Konkani language in Goa, and Sanskrit in Himachal Pradesh.

Gurmukhi script
The Gurmukhi script is the official script for  the Punjabi language in Punjab, Haryana and Delhi.

Meitei script
The Meitei script (Meitei mayek) is the officially mandated script for the Meitei language of Manipur, replacing the Bengali script, albeit with some allowance for parallel use.