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scale is made, the State Government concerned should take the special features of each such case into account in passing orders. (ii) In order to implement the above safeguard, it will be provided that all primary schools liberal
entertain applications from parents belonging to the linguistic minority groups for the admission of their children and for their instruction in the mother tongue for a period of three months ending a fortnight before the commencement of the school year. These shall
should be entered in a register. Departmental arrangements should be applications
to see that no such applicant is refused admission for the reason that the number is insufficient in the particular school where the application is made; and that wherever necessary, inter-school adjustments are made in the matter of admission of the minority made
(iii) Facilities will be provided in everyone of the four States for the study, by pupils belonging to the linguistic minority groups, of the regional language as an additional pupils.
language from the IV Standard onwards so that pupils belonging to these optional
may not be at a disadvantage if at the secondary stage they elect to study the regional language. These facilities will be financed by Government. That is to say, the facility will be provided freely in all schools under public management, i.e. Government groups
local body and the provision of such facilities in aided schools will be eligible for the usual grant from Government. 3. Item 2-Study of language in the Secondary stage of Education. or
question of making provision or the study of the mother tongue by the linguistic The
at the secondary stage of education without deviation of the three language formula in the terms already accepted by all the States of the Southern Zone was discussed. It was noted that in everyone of the four-States provision was being made or minorities
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would be made under the reorganised syllabus of secondary education 176 for the study of linguistic minorities or the mother tongue in the secondary stage. In Madras, a pupil belonging to the linguistic minority can offer the mother tongue as an alternative either to the regional language (Part I of the language course) or to Hindi or
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