AMU Vice Chancellor Lt Gen (retd) Zameer Uddin Shah in a press release said that both Hindi and Urdu have always been compulsory subjects for graduates at the university.
Under the revised arrangement, those students who have studied Hindi as a subject in Class 12 have to opt for Urdu while those who have studied Urdu have to opt for Hindi at the graduate level, he said.
Shah clarified that the present move would ensure that all AMU graduates acquire a basic proficiency both in Hindi and Urdu.
The V-C said that despite being compulsory subjects, Hindi and Urdu were not taken seriously by undergraduate students since their marks were not counted in the division.
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"Our present steps will ensure that students take both these subjects seriously, since from now the numbers secured in these subjects will be added to the aggregate," Gen Shah said.
The AMU had earlier issued a release saying that Urdu had been made a mandatory subject for all undergraduate students.
The release made no mention of the fact that both Hindi and Urdu had already been compulsory subjects at AMU since well over fifty years.
The report, which sparked off a row, had initially not mentioned that the only new provision which was introduced this year was the clause under which the numbers secured in either Urdu or Hindi would be added to the aggregate.