Hyderabad, Jan. 26 -- A symposium on 'Preservation of Urdu in Telangana' was held on Saturday, January 25, here which was presided byTehreek Muslim Shabban (TMS) president Mohammed Mushtaq Malik. Discussing the current state as well as the future of the Urdu language in Telangana, participants expressed concerns over how the language is taught in schools.

Prominent figures like Dr Qutubuddin Quadri, a psychiatrist, and Aziz Pasha, former ex-Rajya Sabha MP, were also called in as special guests. The discussion commenced with the chief editor of Urdu newspaper Gawah Dr Syed Fazil Hussain Parvez praised the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 for recommending instruction in the students' mother tongue till grade five.

He further highlighted th...