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According to the Director of Education, there was no shortage of trained Urdu teachers and the Government was trying its best to solve the problem. At present, untrained teachers were being appointed. In most schools other than those of Urdu 4.279
there were teachers who could teach both Urdu and Hindi. Recently, a substantial number of Urdu teachers had been appointed in primary schools. A provision of Rs. 18 lakhs had been made in the budget for recruitment of about 9000 medium,
in the year 1973-74. The teacher- student ratio in the case of Urdu was one to teachers
The Director cited the case of some schools in the State where Urdu teachers were awaiting for Urdu students to enrol. The then Chief Minister, Shri Kamlapati Tripathi, however, told us that the dearth of Urdu teachers was the main hindrance to the ten.
of new Urdu medium schools and sections. We are naturally inclined to attach greater waight to his assessment. 4.280 Shri Tripathi had announed that 4,000 Urdu teachers-one for each primary opening
be appointed in the municipal areas before the commencement of the school-would
year 1973-74. There were some complaints about the faulty method of appointments that followed. For instance, (i) the time given for submitting applications was only five days, (ii) members of the Interview Board were generally non-Urdu academic
and (iii) the lists of candidates were not prepared properly. We are, however, glad to note that a large number of teachers have been appointed and things have started moving in the right direction. It augurs well for the future and it is hoped that speaking
arrangements for the training of an adequate number of Urdu teachers permanent
be made by the State Government soon. 4.281 West Bengal : In the year 1964, the State Government agreed to consider the would
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opening of separate teachers' training institutions with minority languages as media of instruction. While the proposal could not take concrete shape, the Corporation Training Institute imparting instruction to Urdu students was Closed down. The Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities had observed that although the number of Urdu students had
on Urdu