[lg policy] India: Telangana State set to make Telugu language compulsory

[Harold Schiffman]

 Telangana State set to make Telugu language compulsory
THE HANS INDIA |   Feb 12,2018 , 01:25 AM IST
<http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Telangana/2018-02-12/Telangana-State-set-to-make-Telugu-language-compulsory-/358416#.>

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School Education Department

*Hyderabad:* The State government is all set to issue an ordinance to
implement its policy making Telugu language compulsory from the next
academic year.

It may be recalled here that the government decided to make learning Telugu
language as a compulsory subject till Intermediate. According to sources,
the government had contemplated bringing a law making the learning of
Telugu language as a compulsory subject.

However, ahead of bringing the enactment, it has decided to promulgate an
ordinance. A draft policy document had been prepared by the School
Education Department (SED) and sent the same for the scrutiny of the law
department.

Once the law department gives its node, it will be sent to obtain the
ascent of Governor E S L Narasimhan for issuing an ordinance, the sources
added. However, for people studying Urdu language as their mother tongue
will be exempted from studying Telugu language as a compulsory subject.


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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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