(III)APPENDIX C MEMORANDUM ON ITEM 6: INSTITUTION OF DIPLOMAS IN MODERN INDIAN LANGUAGES IN INDIA UNIVERSITIES

Every university must institute diplomas in modern Indian languages of four or five languages which may be selected by the university keeping in view their local conditions. It will be proper if Southern Indian universities start diplomas in languages of Northern India and universities in Northern India institute. diplomas of Languages of Southern India. The universities must provide facilities for study in the languages and the colleges may select any one language and hold classes in that particular language. If, in a particular city, there are more than one college, the colleges may agree to appoint teachers of different languages and students from a college of a particular language may attend the classes. For instance, the Rajasthan University at Jaipur may institute diplomas in Malayalam, Tamil, Gujarati, Marathi and Bengali. The colleges, affiliated to this university may select any one language, appoint a language-teacher and hold the classes for diploma in that particular language. The students studying for various university examinations must be encouraged to take up one language and attend the diploma classes in that language. Of course, this should not be made compulsory.

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