Civil body condemns use of other languages in place of Manipuri
IFP Bureau31 May 2022
The YELLTH on Tuesday condemned the use of Hindi and Bengali words in the Google Manipuri translator.
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The YELLTH on Tuesday condemned the use of Hindi and Bengali words in the Google Manipuri translator.
Director of Education (S) L Nandakumar Singh said on Wednesday: “The question of including Hindi as a compulsory subject does not arise as we haven’t received any official order or instructions from any ministry”.
The ANSAM then asserted that it will not accept any form of language imposition under any circumstances.
IFP Editorial: It is high time for the government to call in all stakeholders and frame a common response towards the move to make Hindi compulsory.
The student bodies demanded the implementation of policies and programmes of indigenous language promotion drafted under National Education Policy 2020.
Former director of JN Dance Academy, Dilip Mayengbam said that the decision of the central government to impose Hindi language in schools as a compulsory subject in North Eastern states shows that they don’t understand nor value the sentiments of the people of the region.
Hindi Imposition: The decision to impose Hindi language in the state is totally contradictory with the interest of people of state, the Federal Students’ Organisation, Kangleipak (FESOK) said.
The attempt to impose Hindi as a compulsory subject up to Class X will only be seen as an effort to impose hegemony over the Northeast region, many of whose languages are from the Tibeto-Burmese family.
Advocate Sanaojam Samachoron Singh alias Sanou was arrested for allegedly using derogatory language against Amit Shah during a discussion hour on a local TV channel.
There are 22 official languages in India, and to aggrandise Hindi at the expense of the rest of the official languages is insensible and demeaning. Moreover, Hindi imposition will only endanger languages and dialects that are already on the verge of extinction. What the government should focus on is the protection and promotion of endangered languages.
MEELAL stated that the Manipur government should make Manipuri language an official language of the state under the Manipur Official Language Act 1979 amended on March 4, 2021.
IFP Editorial: Students still prefer English as an alternative language among most of the Northeast students and even the Roman script is used by some Northeast tribes for writing and communication.
Stating that the people would not remain silent if Hindi is being imposed in South India by the Central government, they have called the non-Hindi states to organise a protest, PREPAK said.
The Union Home Minister informed that 22,000 Hindi teachers have been recruited in the eight states of Northeast India.
The Hindi imperialists should try to liberalise their vision and learn to respect the rest of the languages whose right in democratic India of all linguistic groups is not a bit lesser than Hindi.