GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
 (EDUCATION DEPARTMENT)
 MEMORANDUM NO. 3843/A2/71-11
 DATED 8-8-1972
 

Subject A. P. Educational Service and A.P. Educational Subordinate Service--prescription of Regional Language qualification for recruitment-Clarification-Issued.

Ref : G.O.Ms. No. 1800-Education dated 2-12-1973

In G.O. Ms. No. 1800-Education-dated 2-12-1971, orders have been issued that for future recruitment to the posts like school Assistants, Headmasters, Assistant Lecturers, Principals etc. or to any other teaching post in any institution in which the medium of instruction is the regional language, one must have studied the Intermediate, P.U.C. or the degree course through the medium of that language and that in case suitable candidates for this category are not available, those who studied through the said language medium in the lower classes or those who have studied that language as one of the subjects in the Intermediate, P.U.C. or in the degree course will be considered eligible for appointment to the said posts.

Representations have been received that by the above orders, a knowledge of Telugu language alone is made a pre-requisite qualification for entry into Government Service and the orders are, therefore, discriminatory against Urdu and other languages. These representations seem to have been based on a wrong interpretation of the government Order. To clear all misapprehensions in this regard, the following clarification is issued.

G. O. Ms. No. 1800-Education, dated 2-12-1971 is applicable for recruitment to certain posts in Educational institutions in the State i.e. Andhra Pradesh Educational Service and Andhra Pradesh Educational Subordinate Service and not to other service. Even in regard to these posts in Education Department, the Government Order does not stipulate that one should be qualified in Telugu medium only for appointment. It contemplates proficiency in the language which is the medium of instruction pertaining to the post for which recruitment is to be made, for instance, for recruitment of teachers including Headmasters and Principals in Urdu medium, institutions one must be proficient in Urdu language and for recruitment of such personnel in Marathi medium institutions, one must be proficient in Marathi. in the case of multi medium proficiency in one of the languages which happen to be the media of instruction in such institutions. Proficiency in the particular language can be presumed if a person has passed the In- termediate PUC or Degree Examination in that language medium or has atleast studied that language as one of the subjects in the aforesaid courses.

All the appointing authorities are requested to interpret G.O. Ms. No. 1800 Education dated 2-12-1971 in the light of the above clarification while making appointments to the aforesaid posts in various institutions.

Sd/- S. R. Ramamurthy

Secretary to Government

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