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a mother-tongue at the elementary stage of education. The
Committee also recommended that it was essential to link
work and employment to education, as work experience was
being marginalised in schools. A discussion of religious
personalities should be encouraged and this came under the
heading of Value Education. (55)

The main factors in the Ramamurti Report are the economic,
political and social motivations to maximise and further
increase language education in English and Hindi. The
Report reiterated the common dialogue between education and
employment and national integration. It provides Anglo-
Indian schools with a Programme of Action for the nineties.
Economic and technological changes and high youth
unemployment have made it difficult for the community to
survive in India.

Anglo-Indian schools must provide Anglo-Indian students
with a better start in working and adult life. This should
be achieved through an integrated programme of language
learning, religious education and practical experience in
a range of related jobs or skills. The Ramamurti Report
stressed the importance of schools developing and
maintaining an adaptable, highly motivated and productive
work force.

By 1990 the impetus and impact of the Ramamurti Report upon
vocational preparation has been in terms of an emphasis on
employer based rather than college based schemes. Anglo-
Indian schools should take the initiative and map 16-19
educational provisions which sets out comprehensively, an
integrated programme to teach Anglo-Indians competence in
Indian languages and competitiveness in the Indian job
market.

The next section describes the degree to which the
political arena has been used by Anglo-Indian leaders. In

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