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dated March 28, 1958: Study of English language

Mr. C.D. Deshmukh, Chairman of the University Grants Commission, inaugurating the conference on “Problems of teaching English” in New Delhi on March 26, said that the development of Indian languages will be more meaningful if we maximised the chances of development of our minds, and this would be impossible without extensive and reinforced resort to one of the most advanced languages of the world, i.e., English “which opens the door to at least two-thirds of the current scientific and technological literature and belles-lettres.” Mr. Deshmukh said, “The pace of replacement of English by an Indian language as the medium of instruction at the university stage will depend on the solution of many problems” which could not be hastened at will, and this process, in his opinion, would consist not merely in the mechanical preparation of glossaries of technical terms and textbooks particularly in science and technology, but also in the preparation of teachers themselves.

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