Adopted at the National Meeting of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat
Date: 21st September, 2024
Recalling that in the year 2010, Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) has started three model schools in in Hyderabad, Nuh (Haryana) and Darbhanga (Bihar) offer education for Urdu speaking students and the union government’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) had granted them affiliation with full knowledge that their medium of learning was Urdu and the students of the MANUU schools had been getting question papers in English, Hindi and Urdu till 2020.
Mushawarat consider it a matter of concern that from the year 2021, the CBSE stopped providing question papers in Urdu language. For the past three years, the students of these three schools had continued to write their answers in Urdu although the question papers had been sent in English and Hindi without any discussions with MANUU before deciding to stop sending question papers in Urdu too and subsequently students are facing difficulty in understanding the questions since they are not in Urdu.
The CBSE instead of resolving the issue had moved a step further to discourage students to continue studies in Urdu medium by suddenly deciding that answer papers written in any language other than Hindi and English without the board’s permission would not be evaluated except from the NCT of Delhi in its meeting in June last and with the latest decision of the CBSE, the students of the Urdu medium schools will no longer be allowed to write their answers in Urdu.
It is a matter of further concern that the Urdu medium schools in different parts of the country including even those started by MANUU which is a central university and gets grants from union ministry of Human Resources are facing difficulties in ensuring educational empowerment to students in their mother tongue because of the irrational decision of the CBSE to disallow students to continue their studies.
Therefore, All India Muslim Majlis e Mushawarat demand immediate withdrawal of the draconian decision of CBSE and restoring the previous policy to allow students to write answers in Urdu language.
Mushawarat also appeals for urgent intervention of the union minister for Education to direct the CBSE Board to scrap its policy to disallow Urdu medium students to write exams in Urdu language.
(Proposed by Navaid Hamid)