Assam Government to Adopt New Language Policy for Schools

The Assam government on Thursday adopted a new language policy for schools to promote indigenous languages of the state.

The new policies to be adopted by the Assam government are:

• The new languages will be implemented till Class 5
• The new language policy will be started from the next academic year
• The policy has been adopted by the Assam government for the students who have not received the facility to study in their mother language
• For tea gardens, students will be taught in Sadri language and simultaneously Assamese will also be taught in the schools
• To further strengthen the education in terms of indigenous languages, a student in Assamese medium school will have  1^st language as Assamese, 2^nd language as English and 3^rd language which will include 50 marks Hindi and 50 marks for other indigenous languages of Assam
• In Bodo Schools, the first language will change and the overall system will remain the same
• In Bodo medium schools, the third language will be divided with Hindi and Assamese, i.e. the 1^st language will be Bodo, 2^nd language will be English and 3^rd language will be Hindi and Assamese of 50 marks
• If an Assamese students want to learn other tribal languages then they can study the languages whichever they want

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