Guwahati: Educating children in Garo Middle School in Assam bordering Meghalaya is a big problem some time ago because teachers here do not meet the requirements in the teacher’s feasibility test (TET), the recognition made must teach at school a decade.
But all that has changed now, thanks to the initiative of an educator, who helped train local Goro youth and 13 out of 33 of them cleared the Tet exam done by the state government in October.
Youth can now take teaching assignments in Government Garo Middle Schools.
Linguistics and Minority Religion Garos at Assam has struggled to protect their language after Meghalaya bifurkasi in the 1970s.
Apurba Thakuria, who is a school inspector, not only helps preserve language but also ensures the language promoted.
In missionary mode, he departed to change the education scenario from Garo’s speaking villages.
The focus is in the village of Ghalkona in the lower Kumbrup Regency Assam.
Thakuria’s success story made him praise from the State Minister of Education, Ranoj Pegu, in the Assembly last week.
Win will visit Gohalkona to annoy the successful candidate on December 31.
Suburban villages are inhabited by the Garo community, mostly in Kamrup District and the purpose of Assam, do not have communication modes and the Internet to connect them to the whole world.
During the peak period of Garo and Ulfa rebellion, many villages, along the Assam-Meghalaya border, witnessed clashes of violence between extremists and security forces.
Even today, higher education continues to avoid thousands of young men here.
For many matrices in Gohalkona, traveling 15 km to the closest college in Boko is a endless trip because the field is hilly.
There is no public transportation.
The lower Gohalkona elementary school was founded at the initiative of American Baptist missionaries in 1893.
Even today, a student must travel to Boko or Meghalaya to take advantage of senior secondary education.
“Our first assignment is to ensure that Garo Middle School which is managed by the government is not closed due to the lack of Garo teachers.
Teaching in vernacular media is very important and has been supported in new education policies,” Thakuria said.