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and 14,126 and the teacher' strength was 156, 179 and 219 respectively. Unfortunately these figures of the State Government were questioned by the Various witnesses who appeared before the Committee. 14,169
According to the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities Urdu is not allowed as a medium of instruction at the secondary stage in Uttar Pradesh, though it is permitted to be taught as a language subject. The Commissioner has drawn the attention of the 4.187
Government to the non-implementation of the agreed safeguards in respect of the State
tongue being allowed as a medium of instruction at the secondary stage. For long, the State Government hesitated to provide such facilities " in the context of the situation prevailing in Uttar Pradesh". When the Commissioner first took up the question mother
the Chief Minister in May 1953, the latter expressed the view that it was not obligatory to impart instruction at the secondary stage through the mother tongue of the linguistic minorities and that the decision of the Southern Zonal Council regard applied with
that zone only. He insisted that the regional language alone could be the medium of to
at the secondary stage. 4.188 The Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hind) alleged that even the schools run by the linguistic minorities were not allowed to have Urdu as the medium of instruction. Since a instruction
number of secondary schools in the. state, were run by private organisations, it was easy for them to introduce Urdu, if the necessary sanction and assistance were given by Government and the Board of High School and Intermediate Examination. It significant
however, be no substitute for the Government institutions offering these facilities. would,
Government itself had been vacillating on a decision in this respect, it could not, with justification, ask aided institutions to work in accordance with the agreed safeguards. Since
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4.189 The Director of Education told us that the Government had now decided to open Urdu medium higher secondary and secondary schools and Urdu sections in the existing Hindi medium schools and that orders to that effect had been issued. These orders when implemented would go a long way in meeting the demands of Urdu speakers of the State.
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