All Assam Students' Union, tribal bodies plan stir over vernacular medium

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: A joint meeting of the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) and several tribal organizations on Wednesday urged the State Government to change its policy regarding vernacular medium education and announced that it would launch an agitation over the issue after the ensuing Durga Puja.

The meeting also decided to organize academic convention to deliberate on the issue of vernacular medium education.

Participants at the meeting said that the Government's recent decision has jeopardized the future of various mother tongues of the State, along with vernacular medium education.

The participants termed the recent Cabinet decisions on education as shortsighted, unscientific, unreasonable and unnecessary. They said that the decisions taken by the State Cabinet were against the New Education Policy-2020.

They demanded that the Government should keep open the option of provincialization of schools at all levels, cancel the decision to teach Mathematics and Science in English medium from class III to XII, ensure proper teaching of English in all vernacular medium schools, develop educational infrastructure in all vernacular schools, cancel the decision to convert the model schools to English medium under the CBSE, cancel of the setting up of an English medium school in each LAC under the CBSE, etc. They also opposed the decision to start parallel English medium teaching in vernacular schools. They urged the Government to review the decision merger/amalgamation of schools and retain Geography and History in the earlier mode.

Apart from the AASU, the meeting was attended by representatives of Axam Xahitya Xabha (AXX), Bodo Sahitya Sabha (BSS), All Bodo Students Union (ABSU), All Assam Tribal Sangha, Coordination Committee of Tribal Organizations of Assam (CCTOA), Mising Mebang Kebang, All Rabha Students' Union, TMPK, All Dimasa Students' Union, Assam Tea Tribes Students' Union, All Assam Gorkha Students' Union, All Assam Sonowal-Kachari Students' Union, All Assam Tribal Youth League, All Assam Deuri Students'Union, and Karbi Students' Association, among others. on the recent decisions on education could not break the ice on the contentious issues. Education Minister Ranoj Pegu said they would sit for another round of talks within a month. The four organizations term.

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