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mentioned for the opening of M. A. classes. Witnesses emphasized that there was no prejudice against Urdu in Punjab and people there wanted to learn it. The Punjab University courses however had been framed in such a way as to prevent specially
of B. A. and B.Sc. from offering Urdu as a subject. This should be remedied. 4.351 Rajasthan : We were, told that facilities for teaching Urdu existed at colleges In Tonk, Jaipur, Ajmer, Kota, Sikar and Udaipur. The number of students desiring to study students
language was substantial particularly in Maharani College, Jaipur; L. B. College; the
Government College, Nasirabad and Government College, Swai Madhopur. In the absence of facilities for teaching Urdu as a subject, students felt frustrated. A number of students of Kota College represented to the Director of Education and Chief Jaipur;
of the State for the introduction of Urdu as a subject, but nothing had been done so far. Arrangements for teaching the subject at the post-graduate level existed only in the Udaipur University and the Vice-Chancellor of the Rajasthan University had Secretary
that M.A. courses would be started at that University from 1973-74. announced
wanted provision of facilities for research also. 4.352 Uttar Pradesh : Witnesses complained that there were very few colleges offering Urdu as a subject at graduate and post-graduate levels in Uttar Pradesh. Seven Witnesses
i.e. Agra, Aligarh, Allahabad, Banaras, Gorakhpur, Lucknow and Meerut, had full-fledged departments of Urdu but there was no chair in Agra and Meerut Universities. Creation of chairs in these two universities was urged. One witness Universities,
the introduction of Urdu as a subject in all the, colleges and full-fledged demanded
of Urdu in all the, universities of Uttar Pradesh. 4.353 The Director of Education informed the Committee that facilities for teaching Urdu up to the degree level had been provided in '14 colleges and up to the post-graduate department
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level in six colleges. Grants at the degree level were sanctioned, three years after the introduction of the subject. But in the case of Urdu, it was decided by the Government that grants might be given even from the first year in nine districts of Uttar Pradesh which had more than 15 per cent of the population speaking Urdu. So far no college had come forward to take advantage of the offer.
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