COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
 

Gujral Committee in its report has made the following comments and recommendations regarding the teaching of Urdu at University level:

"...many Universities situated in areas with a concentration of Urdu speakers, did not have full- fledged departments of Urdu. The right of pupils of linguistic minorities to study their mother tongue right upto graduate and post-graduate levels is conceded by all and for the realisation of that right, facilities for teaching of Urdu need to be provided in the Universities and colleges located in areas with sizeable population of Urdu speakers."

Gujral Committee has also recommended:

".... atleast one college should be set up in a state for making Urdu a medium of instruction upto the graduatelevel."

Andhra Pradesh

There are Urdu medium sections in 38 Junior Colleges and Urdu is taught as a subject in 39 Junior Colleges and 4 private aided Junior Colleges. Urdu medium is provided at graduate level in 4 colleges. Osmania University permits that examination papers could be replied to in Urdu. In 40 Government colleges Urdu is taught as a subject.

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Post-graduate, professional and Technical education is exclusively in English. It is proposed to introduce Telugu medium for graduation in humanities in the Telugu University in Hyderabad city.

In 4 Universities and one Central University there are Urdu Departments.

Bihar

The Spokesman of the Department of Education of Bihar informed the Sub-Committee that Urdu was being taught in 656 Degree colleges of Bihar State and there were full-fledged departments of Urdu in all the Universities of Bihar.

Delhi

There are three Universities in Delhi namely University of Delhi, Jamia Millia Islamia and Jawaharlal Nehru University. Arrangements for Post-graduate doctorate degrees in Urdu exist in all the three Universities. Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University offer M.Phil course as well.

12 colleges affiliated to Delhi University offer the facility of studying Urdu upto Graduate level.

Gujarat

There is Urdu Department in Gujarat College which also after Persian language. There is a demand for their separation.

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Haryana

There is one private college in which Urdu is being taught as a subject. In Rohtak and Krukshetra Universities there is arrangement for Certificate Course in Urdu.

Himachal Pradesh

In Himachal Pradesh, there is no Urdu Department in any college or University. Witnesses demanded that Urdu department should be opened in some colleges. They also demanded that Himachal Pradesh University should start certificate and Diploma Courses in Urdu.

It was brought to the notice to the Sub-Committee that the students of Himachal Pradesh have to take MA examination from Punjab University only because no University of Himachal Pradesh has Post- graduate Urdu Department. It was, therefore, suggested that Himachal Pradesh should set up Urdu Department in the Himachal Pradesh University for Post-graduate courses.

Karnataka

There are Urdu Departments in Universities in the State. But Research Chair exists only in Gulbarga University. There is a demand for it in Mysore, Karnataka and Bangalore Universities also.

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Maharashtra

It was reported by the officials that there was no Urdu medium college in the State. Urdu as a subject was taught in Bombay (Krishan chander Chair), Nagpur, Amravathi, and Marathwada Universities.

When asked whether the students are allowed to answer the papers in their mother tongue irrespective of what the language of tuition is, we were told that such a facility was available for students desiring to answer in Marathi, Hindi or Gujarati in English medium colleges.

Rajasthan

Post-graduate studies, M.Phil and research facilities are available only in Rajasthan and Udaipur Universities and research is also conducted in Government College, Tonk. M.Phil facilities in Urdu in all Post-graduate colleges should be provided.

Jodhpur and Kota Open Universities do not have undergraduate and Post-graduate Urdu Departments. These Departments should be set up there because students of these Universities/Districts cannot go to Rajasthan, Ajmer or Udaipur Universities for studies. There is a demand that Kota Open University should have Urdu faculty/Department.

To improve research standards at least one post of Professor and two or three posts of Readers in Universities of Rajasthan and Udaipur should be created.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh Government supplied a list of the colleges to this Sub-Committee in which Urdu was being taught as a subject. The number of such colleges is reported to be 58. It was also brought to the notice of the Sub-Committee that in most of the Universities of the State, Post-Graduate Urdu Departments were functioning.

West Bengal

At present, Urdu Department exists only in Calcutta University. It was demanded by Urdu organisations of West Bengal that Post- Graduate Urdu Departments should be set up in the Universities of Burdwan, and Jadavpur.

Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (West Bengal), Idara-e-Farogh-e-Urdu and some other Urdu organisations demanded that Urdu should be introduced as a subject in Calcutta Girls College, Harimohan Ghosh College, Ram Mohan College, Surender Nath College and in at least one college of Murshidabad and Kamarpatti each.

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