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covered by either the mother tongue or regional
language or Hindi. (40)

The Anglo-Indian's mother tongue is English. Therefore,
all Anglo-Indians must be taught in the medium of English.
Anglo-Indians also must learn the regional language. The
schools are scattered all over India. The state or
regional language is different for each school. Anglo-
Indians should also learn Hindi the Official Language of
the Union. Thus, the three-language-formula meant the
introduction of the state or regional language and Hindi
into Anglo-Indian schools.

The Kothari Commission stated that the mother tongue had a
pre-eminent claim as the medium of education at the school
and college stages. English would continue as a link
language in higher education for academic work and
intellectual communication. English could not serve as the
link language for the majority of Indians, and it was
therefore Hindi which should take the place of English as
a link language in India. (41)

Anglo-Indian schools continued with a fact-oriented,
textbook-based language curriculum, rather than propounding
a skills-based problem-solving documentary approach to the
learning of Indian languages. The three-language-formula
in Tknglo-Indian schools resulted in a continuing dichotomy
between traditional and progressive forms of curriculum
development. This greatly impeded progress in languages
education. (42)

The political approaches to the management of change based
on the three-language-formula was seen as a matter of
increasing the number of Indian students in Anglo-Indian
schools. Indian students have benefitted from the three-
language- formula .

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