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to the demand for the setting up of an Urdu cell in the Department of Education to make a survey and locate areas and places where Urdu speakers were in sizable numbers to justify the opening of Urdu medium schools, the Minister added that Referring
Committee was being formed to go into the question of opening such schools. 4.93 The Director of Public Instruction told the Committee that orders had been sent to a
primary schools wherever they were needed. In areas like Maha Kaushal open
of Khandwa, Barhampur, Rampur and Bilaspur, the number of Urdu primary schools was already quite adequate. consisting
Maharashtra : Those who had declared Urdu as their mother tongue in Maharashtra in the 1971 census numbered 36,61,898. This population was served in 1971-72 by 1,820 primary schools with 3,17,706 students on rolls and a complement of 4.94
teachers. The corresponding figures in 1969-70 were 1,687 primary schools and 8,901
attached schools, 3,12,720 students and 8,743 teachers. Thus, there was a general improvement in the situation. 107
The Education Secretary told us that all the corporations, municipalities and zila parishads in the State and various districts of Maharashtra were responsible for running Urdu medium primary schools. He did not feel that there was any shortage of Urdu 4.95
schools in the State. Whenever a linguistic minority demanded the opening of a medium
primary school, it was looked into carefully and if found genuine the demand was conceded. new
The Mayor of Bombay Municipal Corporation told the Committee that the 4.96
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Corporation ran 190 Urdu medium schools and was spending Rs. 175.35 per student. This was in addition to the financial aid given by the Corporation 'to the Urdu medium primary schools.
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