Bhubaneswar: Preservation and Promotion Oriya language in the neighbourhood Jharkhand And Andra Pradesh The focus is back.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Wrote a letter to the Chief Ministers of Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh on Friday, asking them to create a conducive environment Oriya speaking student In two states to learn in their mother tongue, while the Odisha government requested Jharkhand to reinstate Odia as a language in the curriculum of the primary teacher training course.
Pointing out that the New Education Policy 2020 encourages states to teach students in their mother tongue for better cognitive development, Pradhan, in a letter to Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, said, “Odia language education in Jharkhand to speak Odia.” sought individual intervention in supporting and protecting the population.”
Jharkhand has an estimated two million Oriya-speaking people concentrated mainly in the Kolhan division, which includes Seraikela Kharsawan, East Singhbhum and West Singhbhum districts, apart from smaller populations in Ranchi, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Simdega, Lathedar and Lathedar districts.
The Union Education Minister has written that while more than 300 Odia medium schools were opened in the region during the period 1913-1948, after the retirement of teachers posted in Odia medium schools, the Jharkhand government seems to be appointing Hindi teachers.
“The state education department has started merging Odia medium schools with Hindi medium schools. This move, citing availability of lesser number of Odia speaking students and staff as possible reasons, linguistic diversity and linguistic This is against the spirit of upholding and promoting the rights of minorities as enshrined in our Constitution,” the Union minister wrote to the Jharkhand CM.
Amid recent protests in parts of Jharkhand over poor preservation of Odia language in the neighboring state, Odisha School and Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Das urged his Jharkhand counterpart Jagannath Mahato to reinstate Odia in the curriculum of the primary teacher training course. Wrote.
Referring to a recent advertisement for recruitment of teachers issued by Jharkhand on September 20, Das said Odia language has been excluded while Sanskrit, Bengali, Urdu, Ho, Mundari, Santhali and Kudmali have been given a paper. as included. “This has created an atmosphere of dissatisfaction, mistrust and unease among the Oriya speaking people,” Dash wrote.
Das informed that Odisha is supporting 35 Odia medium schools in Jharkhand and funding 160 teachers to provide education in Odia through Utkal Sammelan.
In another letter to Andhra’s YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Pradhan reminded that during the demarcation of boundaries between Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, both the states had made efforts to meet the needs of Telugu speaking students in Odisha and Odia speaking students in Andhra. An agreement was made for While Odisha is allowing students to learn Telugu, “necessary support is not being given to students from Visakhapatnam and Srikakulam districts who want to learn Odia,” he wrote.
He said, “The Andhra Pradesh government has not yet supplied textbooks to Odia medium students in class X. Schools have reopened in Andhra Pradesh, but Odia text books have not yet reached the students.”
Pradhan asked Reddy to recruit Odia teachers in the border schools and supply text books to Odia students on time.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Wrote a letter to the Chief Ministers of Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh on Friday, asking them to create a conducive environment Oriya speaking student In two states to learn in their mother tongue, while the Odisha government requested Jharkhand to reinstate Odia as a language in the curriculum of the primary teacher training course.
Pointing out that the New Education Policy 2020 encourages states to teach students in their mother tongue for better cognitive development, Pradhan, in a letter to Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, said, “Odia language education in Jharkhand to speak Odia.” sought individual intervention in supporting and protecting the population.”
Jharkhand has an estimated two million Oriya-speaking people concentrated mainly in the Kolhan division, which includes Seraikela Kharsawan, East Singhbhum and West Singhbhum districts, apart from smaller populations in Ranchi, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Simdega, Lathedar and Lathedar districts.
The Union Education Minister has written that while more than 300 Odia medium schools were opened in the region during the period 1913-1948, after the retirement of teachers posted in Odia medium schools, the Jharkhand government seems to be appointing Hindi teachers.
“The state education department has started merging Odia medium schools with Hindi medium schools. This move, citing availability of lesser number of Odia speaking students and staff as possible reasons, linguistic diversity and linguistic This is against the spirit of upholding and promoting the rights of minorities as enshrined in our Constitution,” the Union minister wrote to the Jharkhand CM.
Amid recent protests in parts of Jharkhand over poor preservation of Odia language in the neighboring state, Odisha School and Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Das urged his Jharkhand counterpart Jagannath Mahato to reinstate Odia in the curriculum of the primary teacher training course. Wrote.
Referring to a recent advertisement for recruitment of teachers issued by Jharkhand on September 20, Das said Odia language has been excluded while Sanskrit, Bengali, Urdu, Ho, Mundari, Santhali and Kudmali have been given a paper. as included. “This has created an atmosphere of dissatisfaction, mistrust and unease among the Oriya speaking people,” Dash wrote.
Das informed that Odisha is supporting 35 Odia medium schools in Jharkhand and funding 160 teachers to provide education in Odia through Utkal Sammelan.
In another letter to Andhra’s YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Pradhan reminded that during the demarcation of boundaries between Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, both the states had made efforts to meet the needs of Telugu speaking students in Odisha and Odia speaking students in Andhra. An agreement was made for While Odisha is allowing students to learn Telugu, “necessary support is not being given to students from Visakhapatnam and Srikakulam districts who want to learn Odia,” he wrote.
He said, “The Andhra Pradesh government has not yet supplied textbooks to Odia medium students in class X. Schools have reopened in Andhra Pradesh, but Odia text books have not yet reached the students.”
Pradhan asked Reddy to recruit Odia teachers in the border schools and supply text books to Odia students on time.
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