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provision to cover the right of instruction In the mother tongue at the secondary stage. constitutional
The Central Advisory Board of Education considered the report of the Secondary Education Commission and the Resolution passed on the subject by the All-India Council of Secondary Education and assigned an important place to the mother tongue 4.136
the curriculum, to enable the pupils belonging to linguistic minorities to study their in
tongue optionally as one of the three languages which were proposed to be taught at the secondary school stage. In its 1956 Memorandum, the Government mother
of India declared that a clear policy would be laid down in regard to the use and place of 46
tongue at the secondary stage of education, in consultation with the State Governments. Again, in the statement issued by the Government of India on July 14, mother
it was stated particularly in relation to Urdu that facilities for instruction should be provided at the secondary stage also. 1958,
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a minimum strength of 60 pupils in standard VIll to Xi of the higher secondary exist,
and 15 pupils in each standard in which facilities were to be provided was considered necessary. "This figure of 60 for all the standards and 15 for each standard shall be computed separately for each one of the diversified courses and for the course,
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academic course; and where different groups of optional subjects are provided in the academic course, separately for each such group of optional subjects " It was also stipulated that the position existing on November 1, 1956, in respect of separate secondary schools for linguistic minorities as well as separate sections for linguistic minorities in other secondary schools with particular reference to pupil strength and
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