LANGUAGE IN EDUCATION
REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Language in Education.
1) Language policy needs reconsideration and Sanskrit
should rind its due place in the formula itself.
2) Place of teaching English as compulsory subject needs
re-thinking.
3) There should be uniformity at the stage in which
English is introduced through out the country.
4) English should be an optional subject at the +2 stage.
Name : Shri C.K. Nagar, Director
Address : State Instt. of Edun. Research
& Training, Udaipur (Rajsthan)
Date of Communication : 21/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) The Three-Language Formula be honestly and vigorously
implemented to assuage linguistic tempers which are once
more running very high.
Name : Dr. Zamiruddin,
Address : The Byron Society, 4 Professor
Colony, Bhopal
Date of Communication : 08/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Compulsory teaching of English at primary level should
be done away with.
Name : Shri Baldev Singh, Lecturer
Address : Rajasthan Teachers Sangh,
Sri Ganganagar (Rajashtan)
Date of Communication : 20/05/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Compulsory teaching of English should be
discontinued.
Name : Shri Rajesh Singhvi,
Address : Students Federation or India,
452 Moksh Marg, Jaipur
Date of Communication : 19/05/90
Category : Other Individual letter
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Language in Education
1) Sanskrit be recognised as an independent subject.
2) Three-language formula should provide for the study of
Sanskrit.
Name : Shri Krishan Lal, Director
Address : Sanskrit Division,
Delhi University, Delhi.
Date of Communication : / /
Category : Other Individual letter
1) All Indians should learn alongwith English one optional
recognised language.
2) Government need not spent money on development of
languages.
3) In college education languages need not be taught
additionally unless it is a main subject.
Name : Dr C Mahadevan,
Address : 41 Devi Illam, State Bank
Colony, Nagercoil
Date of Communication : 11/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) All subjects should be taught in the State language or
in Hindi.
Name : Dr. M S Kirloskar,
Address : Dadhankeri,
Dharwad
Date of Communication : 28/06/90
Category : Other individual letter
1) Medium of instruction should be vernacular in Nagari
lipi.
2) Three language formula should be fully implemented
Name : Shri C.R. Swamy,
Address : E4/206 Arora Colony,
Bhopal, M.P
Date of Communication : 27/06/90
Category l: Other Individual letter
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Language in Education
1) Sanskrit be included as a fulfledged language in the
Three-Language-Formula.
Name : Shri G D Tekale
Address : P O Sainik School- 695 585
Kerala
Date of Communication : 03/07/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Sanskrit be made a compulsory subject.
Name : Sri R S Dhinedi, Editor,
Address : Sampurnanda Sanskrit Univ.,
Varanasi - 221 002.
Date of Communication : 17/07/90
Category : Other Individual letter
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Language in Education
1) Regional languages should be the medium of
instructions.
2) English and other advanced language of the world should
be subjects of study in schools and colleges.
3) Sanskrit should be taught at secondary level as a
compulsory subject.
Name : Shri R S Bharadwaj
Address : Bhartiya Shikhsn Mandal,
K-30 Green Park Main, N. Delhi
Date of Communication : 09/07/90
Category : Organisation
1 It the third language is made compulsory upto class 10,
the load of language will be too heavy.
Name : Council of Boards of School
Address : Education in India, 23, Ashiana
Aptarment, Pitampura, Delhi-34
Date of Communication : 17/07/90
Category : Organisation
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Language in Education
1) More languages should be used in the Primary Schools.
2) Facilities for learning any mothertongue including
tribal languages be provided.
3) There is need for preparation of primers, readers etc.
in tribal languages.
Name : Sumi Krishna
Address : Times of India
Date of Communication : 14/06/90
Category : Newspaper Articles
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