Command Of English ‘Must’: Rao

NEW DELHI, April 21 (UNI)-Education Minister V.K.R.V. Rao declared at the Vice-Chancellors’ Conference, here today that “changing the medium of education from English to the regional languages cannot, and should not, mean the abolition of English from the Universities.” Making a major policy statement on the controversial question of switchover of university medium to regional languages, he said that far from abolishing English, “university students will, in future, have to acquire an adequate command over English to read and understand English books in their chosen subjects and use English as their primary language.” Only by acquiring command over English, a student could have direct access to the growing knowledge in the world and help maintain standards, he said.