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did not work. We have dealt with it at some length under primary education. The same situation existed in the field of secondary education. 4.196 There was great insistence on opening Urdu medium girls institutions. registers
The standard of teaching Urdu in the Urdu medium higher secondary schools, mostly run by the linguistic minorities themselves, needs to be raised. The Government should help these institutions to enable them to provide better teaching facilities so that 4.197
students coming out from these institutions are able to compete with their counter the
coming out fro mother institutions. In some of the States, Government institutions at the district headquarters and major towns are normally well-equiped and well staffed but at the present moment they impart education only through the regional language. If parts
accordance, with the agreed arrangements and also our own recommendations, the Urdu medium sections are introduced according to the requirements in Government run higher secondary schools, they would help in toning up the teaching standards in in
general.
A complaint in a number of States particularly, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh was that the procedure for permission to open Urdu medium higher secondary schools and sections has been made so complicated that it had become 4.198
impossible for the linguistic minorities to set up new schools. Urdu speakers usually come from weaker sections of society and, therefore, the preconditions for starting such schools or sections, if any, should be relaxed in their favour and the almost
so simplified that it becomes possible for organisers of the schools or procedure
to obtain the necessary permission within two months of the date of application. 4.199 In some States, it was found that the number of higher secondary schools sections
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providing education through the Urdu medium had declained sharply. For example, the number of Urdu medium secondary and higher secondary schools in Andhra Padesh, according to the report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, slumped down to 71 in 1961-62 from 220 in the previous year. Many witnesses protested against the changing of the medium of instruction from Urdu to the reginal language in a number of
on Urdu