Section 3(a) in Kerala Official Languages Act, 1969
(a)The Tamil and Kannada minority people in the State may use their respective languages for their corespondence with the State Government in the Secretariat and the Heads of Departments and also with all the local offices of the State Government situtate in those areas which are declared by the Government to be linguistic minority areas for the purpose and the replies sent in such cases shall also be in their respective minority languages .
