Inculcating
the spirit of nationalism and respect for the armed forces, setting up sainik
schools in every district and imposition of Hindi dominated proceedings at the
Central Advisory Board of Education meeting on Tuesday .
There
was near unanimity among states that school teachers need not be deployed for
non-teaching jobs except for poll duty and that too only after the model code
of conduct comes into play .
But it
was the language issue that got many states' education ministers, especially
from Tamil Nadu and northeastern states, engaged. Criticizing the National
Education Policy , Tamil Nadu school education minister K Pandiarajan said
there should be no imposition of any language. The debate started after HRD
minister Prakash Javadekar, in his inaugural speech, referred to Israel where
Hebrew is the teaching medium. Skills development minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy ,
however, talked of co-existence of English and Hindi.
Madhya
Pradesh higher education minister Jaibhan Singh Pawaiya spoke about how the state
is teaching engineering and medical courses in Hindi. Delhi education minister
Manish Sisodia gave the example of Finland where Hollywood films are sub-titled
in Finnish.“This way both English and Finnish can be learnt,“ he said.
But
minister of state for HRD Mahendra Nath Pandey dwelt at length on the language
issue saying there is nothing wrong in having pride in “our history and
heritage“.“Our history and heritage should be highlighted. Sanskar is (values
are) important,“ he said. “It is not the question of competition between
languages but co-existence,“ he said. Lack of patriotism and growing
communalism on university campuses was a big issue for Assam education minister
Hemanta Biswa Sharma. He said students need to be taught about patriotism.
(Source- TOI)
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