CHANDIGARH: The Language Committee of Punjab University has made English a compulsory subject along with Punjabi, at the under graduate level.
Both Punjabi and English, worth 100 marks, will now be compulsory subjects for the students of under-graduate classes in the affiliated colleges of the university from the next academic session.
The committee has also decided to exempt candidates who are not domiciles of Punjab, from studying Punjabi as a compulsory. Instead, they will be studying the subject of Culture and History of Punjab.
Wards of defence personnel and those working in government and semi-government understandings that have stayed outside for not less than 10 years before their admission, are also being excepted.
Students, who are from Punjab and are not studying Punjabi as compulsory subject till the matriculation level, are being offered exemption for two years since they are in the ‘pipeline.’
The confusion will be withdrawn from the 94-95 session, Students on CBSE and ICSE are not studying Punjabi as a compulsory subject at present.
The new pattern arrived at by the committee is similar to the Guru .Nanak Dev University pattern, where, both Punjabi and English are being taught as compulsory subjects, worth 100 maxs.
The patterns of GNDU and Punjabi University were put before the panel, and members decided.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 19, 1992
