72 SOCIAL SCIENTIST official activity. The languages of sizeable linguistic minorities in different states shall be made the ancillary official languages. d) The Eighth Schedule of the Constitution should be amended so as to include several more languages for recognition for which there exists strong popular demand. e) For inter-State and Centre-State communication no language should be imposed as a link language, such a link language has to evolve democratically. f) Whereas Hindi/Hindustani has a considerable spread in the country, the increasing sanskritizatioti of the language reflects a communal and elitist bias of the current policy making it unsuitable for wider acceptance. EDUCATION a) Education should basically be a state subject. However, for maintaining a common core content of education at all levels and for co-ordination of higher education and research through consultative processes, the centre will have to play a significant role. b) Education should be secular and democratic and should be completely separated from religious interests c) The medium of instruction shall be the mother—tongue. d) Illiteracy should be completely eradicated. As the universalisation of primary education and complete adult literacy cannot be achieved within the confines o f formal education these have to be t aken up also as a part of people's democratic movement. CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION Cross-cultural communication plays an important role in creating economic, social and political dynamism and in strengthening the bonds of unity. For this purpose there should be a constructive use of all forms of mass mediae ADIVASIS The Sixth Schedule of the Constitution which now provides protection to certain sections of the Adivasis in certain areas should be so amended as to provide protection for all Adivasi concentrations in various parts oflndia.