Evaluation of Plan Schemes of the Department of Official Language

given an honorarium with a ceiling placed at Rs. 5000/- per annum per
teacher.
The evaluation team visited one of these courses at Pune and interacted
with the participants and faculty. (The team also went to the Central Hindi
Training Institute and saw the course contents, teaching material, exercises
and test papers of Prabodh, Praveen and Pragya courses. The team also
interacted with the faculty and participants of regular courses, including
courses for typists and stenographers.) As far as the course content and
material of the language teaching courses are concerned, they were
reported to be useful. The faculty (in Pune) came in for praise from the
participants. Discussions however also revealed that the participants would
prefer additional material and self-learning tools. The typing course
participants were the most enthusiastic about their learning and confident of
future use. The faculty however were definitely stretched with a number of
classes to be taken at various locations. There is also a felt shortage of
faculty and one faculty is engaged with four courses and they may take six
hours of classes per day, not necessarily in the same location. The support
system for the courses is poor, with ‘classrooms’ having no basic facilities
and computers. There is also no provision for tea or refreshment. In a
previous programme at Pune, taken as a sample case, 125 participants
attended the language course and out which 90 appeared and passed. The
percentage of participants appearing, on an average, may not be more than
seventy. Interestingly, the pass percentage is reported to be about 98
percent!
TRAINING FOR TRANSLATION
The Central Translation Bureau conducts a variety of training programmes
for officials of the government, public enterprises and banks. These
courses range in duration from 5 days to 3 months. But the scheme under
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