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GUWAHATI: The Indigenous Tribal Sahitya Sabha, Assam (ITSSA) urged Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Education Minister Ranuj Pegu to take necessary steps to take a cabinet decision in favour of introducing tribal languages as medium of instruction, and the issuance of the Governor's notification to this regard before August 15, 2022.
The ITSSA said that it had a discussion with the Education Minister on June 1 and February 7 on the introduction of Mising, Rabha, Tiwa and Deori languages as medium of instruction up to Class VIII and Bodo and Garo up to Class XII.
The literary body said that the government released 60 per cent of the corpus fund under the Bhasa Gaurav Asoni and deposited the amount in the fund. "But the government has not released the remaining 40 per cent of the fund to date. The withdrawal of interest accrued from the fund is quite clumsy and complicated. We, therefore, demand the Government to release the remaining 40 per cent of the Corpus fund to the respective Sahitya Sabhas at an early date, besides simplifying the interest withdrawal procedure," ITSSA secretary general Kamala Kanta Mushahary said.
The ITSSA feels that the government is decreasing grants to literary bodies every year. It wants the Directorate of Higher Education to keep up the amount given in 2019-20.
The ITSSA, an umbrella body of Bodo, Mising, Rabha, Karbi, Deori, Dimasa, Garo and Tiwa Sahitya sabhas, held its executive council meeting on July 19. They sent the resolutions adopted at the meeting to the Chief Minister as their demands.
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