Bhubaneswar: Odia protection and promotion in neighboring countries Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh focus again.
Minister of Education Union Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday wrote to the main ministers of the two countries to create an enabling environment for students who speak Odia there to study in their mother tongue, while the Odisha government asked the Jharkhand government to restore odia as a primary teacher training course language.
Underpointing the fact that the new 2020 educational policy encourages the state to teach students in their maternal language for better cognitive development, Pradhan in a letter to Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, looking for “personal intervention in supporting and securing Odia’s language education in the state-language population.
“Jharkhand, which is estimated to have 20 lakh people who speak part of Odia, are mostly concentrated in the Koban Division consisting of Kharsawan, East Singhbhum and West Singhbhum Regency in addition to smaller populations in Ranchi, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Simdega, Lathedra and Lathedar.
While more than 300 Odia Middle School opened in the region from 1913-1948, after retiring Teachers posted in secondary schools, the Jharkhand government seems to appoint Hindi-speaking teachers there, Minister of Education Minister.
“The State Department of Education began combining Odia Middle School with a medium-hindi “The Union Minister said to Jharkhand CM.
In the midst of a recent protest at Jharkhand for poor protection from Odia, Odisha School and Minister of Education Mass Samir Ranjan Dash wrote to his colleague Jharkhand Jagannath Mahto to restore odiah in the primary teacher training course.