The Report of the University Education Commission

While I have no objection to vernacular being the medium of instruction in the secondary and the high school courses or Hindi or Hindusthani being cultivated as the national language ol'India the importance of the study of English cannot be lost sight of. [...] English today is the language understood and spoken in a great part of the civilised world and is one of the two official languages of the U.N. [...] Pride in the regional language along with a natural desire for making the regional language the vehicle of expression of thought at all levels inclines one to the view that the regional language will have to be the medium of instruction. [...] Upto the end of the higher secondary classes the prvincial language should be the medium of instruction and the ntional language (Hindustani) as well as English should be compulsory second languages for three years at the end. [...] I would suggest the continuance of the existing provincial or regional scripts for the various languages but prescribe the Roman script for the inter-provincial or the national language of India to make it easier both for those who are familiar with the Roman script in connection with English today in India and for all other nations of the world who may find it easier to pick up our national lan