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there was already one Urdu medium basic training college in Balapur (Akola district) and it was not considered necessary to open another. 4.265 The shortage of trained teachers was so acute, the witnesses told us, that non- that
medium teachers were being appointed in some Urdu school. Some witnesses wanted reservation of seats for linguistic minorities in the existing training colleges. 4.266 There was also the problem of teachers' reluctance to go to the rural areas. Urdu
suggested the provision of some incentive to teachers to persuade them to Witnesses
up appointments in the villages. This problem was, however, not confined to Urdu teachers atone and the many incentives the State proposes to give to other teachers, should automatically be applicable to Urdu teachers also. take
According to tire statistics furnished by the Maharashtra Education authorities, there were five teachers training colleges for men and woman at Poona, Bombay, Nagpur, Maligaon, etc.Facility for the training of Urdu teachers existed at least in 49 4.267
in addition to these colleges, there were nine basic training institutions for colleges.
teachers. We were also told that the State Government had sanctioned a kinderegarton training college with, Urdu medium. 4.268 Orissa : in Orissa, as the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities recorded in 1964, Urdu
was the only minority language enjoying of facility of teachers' training. Until 1969- 70, no shortage of Urdu teachers was reported. In his report for 1963, the Commissioner reported the opening of the Mohammadan Teachers Secondary School Urdu
Bhadrak and an increase in the intake capacity of fee H.T.E.T. School at Cuttack by at
seats, of which 5 seats were reserved for lady teachers. 4.269 The secondary school teachers for Urdu were being trained through the Oriya medium as, according to the State Government the small number of secondary schools 25
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would not justify the opening of separate training schools with Urdu as the medium of instruction. The commissioner felt that at least a separate section should be opened for tire training of Urdu teachers in the existing institutions. By 1964,the Commissioner was able to report that one of the secondary training schools of the State had Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and Telgu as media of instruction. Matric and intermediate Urdu teachers with
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