URDU TEACHING AND RESEARCH
 CENTRE, SOLAN
 

The Central Government is running an Urdu Teaching Centre at Solan under the supervision of the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. The State Government has provided the building and hostel accommodation.

This Committee visited the teaching centre at Solan and found that there was no proper coordination among the three authorities responsible for running the Centre.

The building provided to the Centre for teaching is very small. There are only two rooms available for teaching while atleast 5-6 rooms are required. The same is the case with the hostel. Hostel is supposed to provide living accommodation to 40 students. Present building is a private house acquired on rent and it can accommodate hardly 10 students. The remaining students have to find accommodation in private houses.

The students living in the hostel, told the committee that they were facing great difficulty due to shortage of accommodation in the hostel. The rent of private houses are beyond the reach of the students. There are only five small rooms to accommodate 20 students.

Only the in-service teachers are selected for appointment. Their salaries and stipend are paid by the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. But it is a general complaint that when a teacher is selected, the Department of Education does not

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provide his substitute to the school concerned. The result is that the Headmasters do not want to send their teachers to the Centre. The Centre has the capacity of 40 students but it gets hardly 15-16 students every year.

The Centre is also running a correspondence course. Currently, 110 teachers are enrolled for this course. Due to the shortage of administrative staff, justice is not being done to this course.

The present Principal of the Insitution is officiating as Principal and no permanent appointment has been made.

Teachers of this Centre have prepared text-books. The manuscripts of these text-books were sent to Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, a few years ago, but the books have not been published so far.

The Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore should look into the above deficiencies with a view to improving the situation.

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