Row over changing Urdu with Sanskrit in govt colleges in Rajasthan

Orders changing Urdu with Sanskrit because the third language in some authorities colleges in Rajasthan adopted by a Minister’s remarks that many Urdu lecturers secured jobs with pretend levels has created a row within the BJP-ruled State.

Rajasthan’s schooling division had not too long ago issued an order to Mahatma Gandhi Authorities Faculty (RAC Battalion), Jaipur, to droop lessons providing Urdu because the third language and introduce it as an possibility.

Just a few days later, a authorities senior secondary college in Bikaner obtained an analogous communication for changing the language.

Amid rising resentment towards the dual orders, a contemporary controversy broke out on Monday (February 17, 2025) after Minister of State for Residence Jawahar Singh Bedham purportedly stated that many Urdu lecturers within the State secured jobs with pretend levels.

“The earlier (Congress) authorities eliminated Sanskrit lecturers and posted Urdu lecturers of their place. Now, we do not know Urdu and nobody even research that topic, which is why we’ll discontinue the posts of Urdu lecturers and supply the form of schooling that folks need right here,” Mr. Bedham stated throughout an occasion held in Bharatpur on Monday which circulated within the social circles.

Rajasthan’s Urdu Lecturers’ Affiliation termed the Minister’s remarks baseless and irresponsible.

“It isn’t appropriate to name Urdu lecturers pretend with none investigation. It’s also unfaithful that earlier Congress authorities appointed Urdu lecturers changing Sanskrit lecturers,” stated Urdu Lecturers’ Affiliation president Amin Kayamkhani.

Faculty Training Minister Madan Dilawar was not accessible for feedback.

Nonetheless, Board of Secondary Training Director Ashish Modi stated it isn’t a blanket order for all colleges.

“It isn’t a blanket order. Besides one scholar, there may be no one who research Urdu because the third language in a authorities college in Napasar, Bikaner. That is the rationale why it was discontinued,” he stated.

The order to droop Urdu lessons in Mahatma Gandhi Authorities Faculty (RAC Battalion), Jaipur, was issued by the district schooling officer on the instructions of Dilawar’s particular assistant.

“The Minister has ordered the creation of Sanskrit lecturers’ posts and shut down Urdu (lessons). Subsequently, be sure to ship the whole proposal for opening Sanskrit as a 3rd language in your college to this workplace,” the order states.

Taking an objection, Congress MLA Rafeek Khan wrote a letter to Dilawar.

“Presently, 127 college students finding out Urdu as third language within the college. Closing Urdu lessons would adversely have an effect on the scholars,” he stated.