The Nehru Report and Muslim Rights — Page 180
SUPPLEMENT. A Brief Review of the Supplementary Report of the Nehru-Committee. After the publication of my criticism of their original Report, the Nehru Committee have issued a Supplement ary Report in which they have attempted to make some modifications on their original recommendations. In spite of these modifications my review hardly needs any alteration. But lest s�me people should think that the publication of the Supplementary Report has rendered some portions of my review unnecessary, I take this opportunity to express my views very briefly in regard only to those parts of the Supplementary Report which are calculated to affect the Muslims. 1. Dealing with the question of free elementary education in the future Commonweaith of India the Sup plementary Report has, under the heading '' Funda mental Rights,'' added a proviso to the following effect, '• adequate provision shall be made by the State for im parting public instruction in primary schools to the children of members of minorities of considerable strength in the population through the medium of their own langu age and in such script as it is in vogue among them. '' ( Supplementary Report of the Nehru Committee, p. 32, cl. 4, Sub-cl. v. ) The usefulness of this modification cannot be denied but the words embodying it are too vague and ambiguous, and there is �very likelihood that the Muslims will be deprived of the benefits that will accrue from it, and will fail to acquire education in their own script in many provinces. If in the light of the regulations of a similar nature, obtaining in the States