Andhra Pradesh - Guntur   

Call to implement 3-language formula

Staff Reporter

GUNTUR: All Government offices must implement the `Three-language formula' without fail, the Andhra Pradesh Official Language (Urdu) Commission member, Jeelani Pairak. At a review meeting at the District Collector's office on Tuesday, he said that as a first step nameplates of Government offices should be written in Telugu, Urdu and English.

A plan must be evolved to implement Urdu as second language in Guntur district and people should be made aware of this plan though a notification, he said while reviewing the implementation in several government departments in the presence of District Collector G. Jayalakshmi.

Panel on Urdu

He also wanted the copies of petitions being received in Urdu in the district Collector's office to be sent to the commission. The State Government had set up a commission after 15 years to oversee proper implementation of the Urdu language, he added. In the first visit he proposed to sensitise the official on the ways and means to implement the second official language.

Telugu and Urdu Durbar Halls should be constructed as per the population figures and all efforts made to organise debates, discussions, and seminars in Urdu. For the growth of the language it should be given proper encouragement from the school stage, he opined while talking to District Education Officer Y. Chandra Mohan. He wanted the child labourers liberated from the hardship of work and pointed out that lives of former sportspersons were in a very bad state. The District Collector promised to submit a plan on implementation of Urdu as second official language.

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