Section 17(2) in Assam Education Department Rules and Orders
(2)"Middle vernacular schools" mean those middle schools where English is not taught as one of the compulsory subjects unless the context excludes he clauses of such schools mentioned in sub-rules (4) and (5) of this rule. These Middle vernacular schools are also called Assamese Middle Schools, Bengali Middle Schools, etc., according as the vernacular of such schools is Assamese or Bengali.
