Manipur college students’ group opposes move to introduce Sanskrit in colleges, colleges
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It says authorities should as a substitute take steps to defend over 30 dialects spoken in the State
A college students’ group has opposed the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Manipur authorities’s move to introduce Sanskrit in the curriculum of some colleges and colleges.
The Manipur Students’ Association Delhi (MSAD) mentioned the proposal mirrored the “dominant attitude of the RSS-oriented government of Manipur” and that “not a single word of Sanskrit” has discovered its approach to the mom tongues of the indigenous inhabitants.
The affiliation’s assertion adopted an announcement by Manipur Education Minister S. Rajen on Thursday throughout a go to to the Sanatan Sanskrit Vidyalaya in the State’s Kangpokpi district. He had additionally mentioned there was a plan to open a Sanskrit division in Manipur University.
“…MSAD sees it as an attempt to enslave the people of Manipur academically and linguistically in furthering India’s process of colonialism against Manipur. Imposing an alien language upon the indigenous people is completely a sign of colonisation,” the scholars’ physique mentioned.
The MSAD argued that an imposed language would threaten greater than 30 dialects spoken by the State’s indigenous populace. The State authorities, it added, ought to slightly undertake measures to revive and defend these dialects.
Sale of colleges
In State capital Imphal, an NGO named Haomee has requested the Nongthombam Biren authorities to probe the alleged sale of two State-run colleges to non-public gamers at ₹1 every throughout the earlier Congress-run authorities.
These colleges had satisfactory variety of college students belonging to the weaker sections of the society on the time of the deal, the NGO mentioned. “This happened in the middle of the academic session and the then government shifted the students to another school 3 km away,” it mentioned in a press release.
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