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was : middle 903, secondary 173, and higher secondary 94. No figures were supplied to the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities but the statistics supplied to us revealed a progressive trend. schools
The Bihar Government have decided that "from class VII onwards (in the case of Basic Schools, from class IX onwards) the medium of instruction in all non-language subjects should be Hindi. But in the High Schools run by the linguistic minorities there 4.155
be no objection to any other language being the medium of instruction". would
No. VII/MI2-04/60-5508 dated October II , 1961 of the Department of Education, Bihar). 4.156 Commenting upon this arrangement, the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities (Resolution
that it was not in consonance with the decisions of the Ministerial Committee of the Southern Zonal Council. He brought up the matter at the meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council held in 1963, and 1965. The State Government agreed to accept the observed
of the Chief Ministers' Conference of 1961 in respect of the 15 : 60 formula, but decision
orders were issued to implement the decision. 4.157 In 1970, the Bihar Government adopted a phased programme for the implementation of the decision regarding provision of facilities for Urdu as a medium of no
at the secondary stage of education. It was decided that the 15 : 60 formula would be implemented in three phases. In the first phase, all the government secondary schools were to be covered, while in the second phase all the non government instruction
schools in the districts of Dhanbad, Purnea, Ranchi and Singbhum. In the secondary
phase the rest of the secondary schools in the State were to be covered. 4.158 We were told by the witnesses that in Bihar, most of the schools imparting education through the Urdu medium in the secondary schools or having Urdu medium third
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sections were run by the linguistic minority itself. No facility was available in the Government, district board or municipal board schools. it is recommended that under the new phased programme adopted by the Bihar Government, this neglected sector should be better looked after and facilities provided as recommended by us elsewhere.
on Urdu