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'''Save Urdu Movement''' ({{langx|ur|اردو بچاؤ تحریک}}) is a movement found in both [[India]] and [[Pakistan]]. In India, it is represented by the statewide units in different states of that country. In Pakistan, the movement is dedicated to ensure that [[Urdu]] is protected in [[Pakistan]] as its national language. It has especially argued for safeguarding Urdu education in schools.<br />
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==India==<br />
===Save Urdu Movement and Indira Gandhi===<br />
Former [[India]]n [[Prime Minister]] [[Indira Gandhi]] had a long and fruitful association with the representatives of the Save Urdu Movement. They had frequent access to her and she tried address some of their grievances related to [[Urdu]] in [[India]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGVBAgAAQBAJ&q=%22save+urdu%22&pg=PT138 | title=Google Books - Lifting the Veil | isbn=9789351184515 | accessdate=23 April 2014| last1=Chughati | first1=Ismat | date=12 September 2001 }}</ref><br />
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===Role of Save Urdu Movement in highlighting Problems of Urdu in India===<br />
This organisation has pointed out that partisan treatment is being meted out to [[Urdu]] language in many states of [[India]]. One such glaring example highlighted is that in spite of the status of official language in [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[Urdu]] is now totally absent from government offices. There are now too few schools in the state where [[Urdu]] teaching has remained intact because [[Urdu]] teachers had not been inducted in for 14 years. All this information was furnished in a 2008 press statement issued by Irshad Ahmad, the general secretary of the state unit of ‘Urdu Bachao Tahreek’ (Save Urdu Movement) in [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://twocircles.net/2008jun25/urdu_second_official_language_absent_offices.html | title=Urdu, second official language, absent from offices | accessdate=23 April 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Pakistan==<br />
===Rift with the Sindh Government===<br />
This organisation particularly had a problematic time in Sindh where the provincial government tried to promote [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]] over Urdu. One such scheme introduced by the Sindh Government of the ''Sindhi Salees'' scheme to promote Sindhi as a compulsory subject by slashing a 100-mark paper of Urdu taught to the students in Class XI. Save Urdu Movement argued that efforts should be made to teach Urdu and Sindhi to the students at schools in a meaningful way with a spirit to enable the students to understand significantly the language and its uses in the daily life, and the government should not try to impose Sindhi or Urdu teaching as a compulsory subject on the students at the intermediate level.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dawn.com/news/162751/karachi-teachers-oppose-decision-on-language-subject | title=Home Newspaper Karachi KARACHI: Teachers oppose decision on language subject | publisher=Dawn Newspaper | access-date=23 April 2014}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Urdu]]<br />
[[Category:Education in India]]<br />
[[Category:Education in Pakistan]]</div>Saileshchauhan