implementation of the National Policy of Education (NPE)
and the Programme of Action (POA) to carry out the
educational reforms of the NPE (1986) . In 1990, the
Ramamurti Report was published. It was the first report to
challenge the Three-Language Formula and described Hindi
and English as link languages in India.
The next section discusses this important report. The
Ramamurti Report is examined because it regards the school
as the principal agency of curriculum development. The
Ramamurti Report questions the traditionalist assumptions
and assertions of school and teacher autonomy. In the
context of Anglo-Indian schools it challenges the social
and cultural phenomena of curriculum development in these
schools .
3.5.2. The Ramamurti Report (1990): Committee to review
National Policy on Education (1986) and Programme of
Action (POA) (1986)
The Ramamurti Committee was appointed to review the
national Policy of Education (1986) and its Programme of
Action (1986) . It submitted its recommendations to the
Indian Government on 26 December 1990. Language learning
was essential for creating national and social integration.
English and Hindi were described as link languages.
English was also needed as a language of learning in the
field of higher education and was called a "library
language". The Committee recommended that English should
be studied in the upper primary or secondary stages in all
schools. English and Hindi could be studied for three or
six years.
The Committee found that the three language formula was
interfering with the development of the child's mastery of
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