33 language blunders in emergency notification

With questions being raised on how the state agencies handled prior warnings about the Easter Sunday bombings, there are also concerns over more blunders and blunders.

One such case is the ongoing Emergency Regulations, introduced just a day after the dastardly incidents.

This was followed a day later by another gazette notification to correct as many as 33 mistakes in the original gazette.

Some of the mistakes were clearly seen as ones which could have been

avoided only if the officials were more attentive on a document which deals with national security.

Here are some of the mistakes that were corrected. The corrected version with the erroneous words within brackets follows:

‘ The Commander of the Army’ (Commissioner of the Army ), ‘Use’ (sue), ‘Offence’ (office), ‘Police station of his area’ (police of his are), ‘Not exceeding’ (after exceeding) ‘to incite’ ( to incine), ‘ not less than five thousand rupees and not exceeding ten thousand rupees’ ( not less than five hundred rupees and hundred rupees and not exceeding five thousand rupees), ‘shall be guilty of an offence (shall be of an offence) ‘acts or omission’ ( acts or commission). In addition, several regulation numbers too were corrected.

Only few weeks ago, a 'textual' mistake occurred in a gazette notification was corrected. A gazette notification issued by the Secretary to the President was rectified with a mistake being about the name of an officer appointed to a Presidential Commission of Inquiry.