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offering Urdu as a special subject. We have attempted to work out a formula which gives due importance to the national and regional languages in addition to the mother tongue. students
In evolving our basic approach to educational safeguards, we have felt the need for having mixed schools where the medium of instructions could be the regional language as also the mother tongue. The Committee has laid stress on the opening of parallel 29.
for imparting instruction in the mother tongue in order to avoid segregation. classes
The need for the implementation of the constitutional provision for the acceptance of petitions and applications etc., in any language of the citizen's choice, and other administrative arrangements for the translation of important acts, notifications etc., has 30.
emphasised. Following the pattern set by the Conference of the Chief Ministers held in 1961, the Committee has recommended the setting up of translation bureax at the State and district headquarters in areas which conform to the population test been
under our recommendations regarding Education. It has also been suggested indicated
it should be considered an educational qualification for an administrator if be knows the major languages of the area in which he is posted. Officers learning more languages, it is recommended, may be given incentives in the form of advance that
cash awards, etc. 31. For Urdu newspapers and periodicals, which mostly come under the category of small and mediumsized newspapers, the Committee has recommended a more liberal increments,
in the matter of release of advertisements, purchase of machinery and treatment
etc. 32. For the promotion of higher research and literature, the Committee has made a number of suggestions including the establishment of two research institutes-one at equipment
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Hyderabad in the South and the other in the North at Aligarh, Rampur, Lucknow or Delhi in that order of preference. The holding of writers' workshops and the establishment of a writer's cooperative to undertake publication of Urdu books have also been recommended.
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