The Gujral Committee Report - Language in India

The Committee noticed that the National Policy Resolution is not being followed in the Centre's own schools, viz., the Kendriya Vidyalayas or in schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education. We feel that it would be unwise to continue with result.
non- implementation of the Centre's own directives in its own schools and would recommend that non-adherence to the concept of the Three- Language Formula in the Central Schools on the plea of transferability of pupils should not be allowed to continue the,
longer. We feel that if the Central Government is itself not able to enforce the any
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Language Formula, it cannot possibly exercise any moral influence over the States. It would therefore, be necessary in all Central Schools also to apply the Three- Language Formula strictly, as laid down in the National Policy Resolution. (4.243 and Three-
4.244)
As a result of the general expansion of education and also in view of the announcements made by some States like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh of their decision to appoint Urdu teachers in primary and secondary schools, there is bound to be an 47.
demand for a large number of trained Urdu teachers. Some of the States are trying to get over the difficulty by appointing untrained teachers on the condition that they get trained within a specified period. This presupposes the existence of the immediate
training facilities on round, which in reality do not exist. In order to surmount necessary
difficulty, we recommend as follows : (i) Immediate and effective steps should be taken to ensure expansion of training facilities in various States to cope with the demand. the
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(ii) Keeping in mind the present paucity of trained Urdu teachers, States Like Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka , Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal should set up centres for giving concentrated short-term courses for Urdu teachers as has already been done by the Central Government at
on Urdu