'CBSE's Exam Rule Change Puts Future of Urdu Medium Students in Jeopardy'
My Report | "CBSE has recently proposed not evaluating students writing in a medium other than Hindi or English," writes Dr Mozaffar Islam.
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For students of Kamran MANUU Model School – an Urdu medium school in Bihar's Darbhanga – a recent proposal by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to switch from Urdu to English or Hindi can prove to be detrimental to say the least.
Earlier this year, on 24 May, CBSE's examination department proposed that "answer books of students writing in a medium other than Hindi or English, without prior approval from the board, shall not be evaluated".
It further recommended declaring their results "without awarding any marks".
If implemented, this proposal will jeopardise the future of as many as 930 students at Kamran MANUU Model School as well as the two other CBSE-affiliated schools where students take their exams in Urdu – Model School, Falaknuma in Hyderabad and Model School, Nuh in Haryana.
All these three schools come under the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) – a central university founded in 1998 for the promotion of the Urdu language.
If students are restricted to study only in Hindi and English mediums, then how will you enroll students in higher degree courses at the Urdu university?
(The author is the principal at Kamran MANUU Model School, in Bihar's Darbhanga.)
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