GUWAHATI: As in line with resolutions taken within the 10th annual special session of the Assam Sahitya Sabha at Raha in Nagaon this month, the apex literary body is protecting a strict vigil on tutorial institutions where "indigenous languages are being neglected". Under Sahitya Sabha's radar are institutions, most commonly English medium faculties affiliated to the CBSE, which are not adhering to the literary body's name for educating the mummy tongue till Class X.
"Those schools, which are flouting The Assam Official Language Act, 1960, which gave official status to the Assamese language in the Brahmaputra Valley and to the Bengali language in the Barak Valley, should correct themselves. If our appeals go unheard, we will be forced to act against them. It's not legally permissible to flout the Act," Padum Rajkhowa, fundamental secretary of the Assam Sahitya Sabha, told IdealNews on Tuesday.
Top office-bearers of the literary body just lately approached the Assam chief secretary and the DGP, to press for his or her call for to implement The Assam Official Language Act, 1960 in letter and spirit across all govt and personal institutions within the state.
Recently, Sahitya Sabha president Paramananda Rajbongshi prompt the Kendriya Vidyalaya, which is situated at Tamulpur in Baksa district beneath the Bodoland Territorial Council, to take steps for educating Bodo and Assamese languages within the school.
Earlier, the apex literary body had raised the call for prior to the CBSE to make Assamese the lingua franca and make the educating of different regional language papers compulsory in CBSE-affiliated faculties of the state.
Sahitya Sabha mentioned that with a purpose to make Assamese and different local languages flourish, the literary body is emphasizing on the significance of training Bodo, Rabha, Mishing, Tiwa, Karbi, Dimasa and different local languages spoken by means of ethnic tribes and communities. It could also be urgent for making Assamese compulsorily in CBSE-affiliated faculties in Assam, which prefer to have English because the medium of instruction.
"Those schools, which are flouting The Assam Official Language Act, 1960, which gave official status to the Assamese language in the Brahmaputra Valley and to the Bengali language in the Barak Valley, should correct themselves. If our appeals go unheard, we will be forced to act against them. It's not legally permissible to flout the Act," Padum Rajkhowa, fundamental secretary of the Assam Sahitya Sabha, told IdealNews on Tuesday.
Top office-bearers of the literary body just lately approached the Assam chief secretary and the DGP, to press for his or her call for to implement The Assam Official Language Act, 1960 in letter and spirit across all govt and personal institutions within the state.
Recently, Sahitya Sabha president Paramananda Rajbongshi prompt the Kendriya Vidyalaya, which is situated at Tamulpur in Baksa district beneath the Bodoland Territorial Council, to take steps for educating Bodo and Assamese languages within the school.
Earlier, the apex literary body had raised the call for prior to the CBSE to make Assamese the lingua franca and make the educating of different regional language papers compulsory in CBSE-affiliated faculties of the state.
Sahitya Sabha mentioned that with a purpose to make Assamese and different local languages flourish, the literary body is emphasizing on the significance of training Bodo, Rabha, Mishing, Tiwa, Karbi, Dimasa and different local languages spoken by means of ethnic tribes and communities. It could also be urgent for making Assamese compulsorily in CBSE-affiliated faculties in Assam, which prefer to have English because the medium of instruction.
Sahitya Sabha glare on schools neglecting indigenous languages
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