Bhubaneswar: Odia’s protection and promotion in neighboring Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh have returned to focus.
Minister of Education Union Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday wrote to the Chief of the Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh to create an environment that allowed Odia students in both countries to learn in their mother tongue, while the Odisha government asked Jharkhand to restore odia as a primary teacher training course language .
Indicates 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 to speak populations.” Jharkhand estimates that 20 lakh odiah speaks mainly, 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 Regency and Lathedar.
While more than 300 odiah high schools opened in the area in the period 1913-1948, after retiring the teacher was posted in Odia Middle School, the Jharkhand government seemed to be appointed to Hindi teachers there, the Minister of Education Minister.
“The State Education Department has begun to combine Odia Middle School with Hindi Middle School.
This step, citing the availability of the number of English-speaking students and staff as a reason, clearly against the spirit of linguistic and linguistic diversity and promotion of linguistic minority rights as immortalized in our constitution, “The Union Minister wrote to Jharkhand CM.
In the midst of protests recently in several parts of the Jharkhand on the protection of bad odiah in neighboring countries, Odisha schools and mass education ministers Samir Ranjan Dash wrote to Jharkhand Jharkhand Mahto partners to restore odiah in the primary teacher training course curriculum.
Referring to the recent advertising for the recruitment of teachers by Jharkhand issued on September 20, Dash said that Odia had been excluded while Sanskrit, Bengali, Mundari, Santhali and Kudmali had been included as a paper.
“This has created an atmosphere of differences of opinion, this distrust and conjunction fanned controversy among people in odia,” Dash wrote.
Dash refers to Odisha has supported 35 Odia Middle School in Jharkhand and has provided funds for 160 teachers through Utkal Sammilani to provide education in Odia.
In another letter to Andhra from Jagan Mohan Reddy, Pradhan reminded that during the demarcation of the border between Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, the two countries have signed an agreement to meet the needs of Telugu students in Andhra.
While Odisha allows students to learn Telugu, “The support needed is not expanded to Visakhapatnam and Srikakulam District students who want to learn odia,” he wrote.
“The Andhra Pradesh government has not supplied textbooks to Medium Odia students in class X.
Schools have been reopened at Andhra Pradesh, but Odia textbooks have not reached the students,” he added.
Pradhan asked Reddy to recruit Odia teachers at the border school and supply textbooks to Odia students on time.