Axam Xahitya Xabha (AXX) To KVS: Lay Stress on Regional Languages

GUWAHATI: The Axam Xahitya Xabha (AXX) has appealed to the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) to revert to type on imparting lessons of regional/additional languages or else get ready to face the music.

In a recent letter, the KVS Joint Commissioner, citing a new circular, asked all KVS regional offices to impart health and physical education compulsorily every day from Class-I to Class-XII.

Reacting sharply to such a directive on Monday, AXX president Paramananda Rajbongshi told the media: “While executing this directive on health and physical education, a set of new rules have been adopted in kendriya vidyalayas (KVs). And in doing so, the importance of regional/additional languages has been totally decimated. In a KV class, 15 or more students want to learn regional/additional languages. However, under the new time table, students learning regional/additional languages have been made to attend such classes before or after regular school time table. This implies that a student learning regional/additional language will have to be in school early in the morning before the regular classes or after the regular school hour. Such a treatment being meted out to the students learning regional/additional languages speaks volumes of the degree of importance the KVS gives on mother tongues. If this is not a conspiracy to wipe out regional/additional languages like Assamese, Khasi, Bengali, Manipuri, Marathi, Gujrati, Tamil, etc, what else is?”

Rajbongshi further said: “We condemn such a policy and the demand the KVS to revert to type on its policy on regional/additional language or else we’ll start a democratic agitation against it for denying students the opportunity of learning their mother tongues.”

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