PANJIM: The Education Department sought to create further confusion and chaos among parents by announcing that a fresh proforma will be issued to parents through schools for filling up forms to decide on the language of choice for their children, in Konkani and Marathi.
Meanwhile, around fifty thousand-odd forms filled by parents exercising their choice of language has reached the Education Department on Thursday — the deadline for the submission of forms.
Later, speaking to Herald Deputy Director Anil Powar said, “The Department will issue proforma in Marathi and Konkani so that parents can read the forms and fill them in the language of their choice”.
The Department actually admitted that this was due to the pressure mounted by the BBSM which threatened to protest vociferously if the proforma was not sent in Konkani and Marathi.
The Education Department will now have to deal with the existing filled forms and the huge delay the process of sending and receiving filled forms in other languages would take.
“We will begin classifying all the forms from tomorrow. It is a huge task and is expected to take time as we sift through the forms of each school”, sources in Education Department said.
However, sources, said that there are several issues that are expected to crop up during the course of implementation.
“What if a school has just one or two students whose parents choose regional language? Will they be thrown out of school? Will they have a separate division just for them?” sources asked.
The logic baffles. The Department is in no position to explain how this will further help the process and why this move was made after the process of seeking parents views were taken.
Meanwhile, the Education Department will begin dealing with the forms it has already received.
Besides, the Department will also have to separately conduct inspections to see if schools have the necessary infrastructure before granting them permission to open separate divisions for the different choices of parents.
Questions are also being raised about the availability of textbooks in English with sources saying that even if the order was given to print text books, it would take at least another two months to be available.
The directorate of education supplies free textbooks to children under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan scheme.
Commenting on the situation, sources in the Education Department said that all these issues will be raised before the Government and that the new medium of instruction will not be implemented until all hurdles are cleared.
Courtesy : Herald
Meanwhile, around fifty thousand-odd forms filled by parents exercising their choice of language has reached the Education Department on Thursday — the deadline for the submission of forms.
Later, speaking to Herald Deputy Director Anil Powar said, “The Department will issue proforma in Marathi and Konkani so that parents can read the forms and fill them in the language of their choice”.
The Department actually admitted that this was due to the pressure mounted by the BBSM which threatened to protest vociferously if the proforma was not sent in Konkani and Marathi.
The Education Department will now have to deal with the existing filled forms and the huge delay the process of sending and receiving filled forms in other languages would take.
“We will begin classifying all the forms from tomorrow. It is a huge task and is expected to take time as we sift through the forms of each school”, sources in Education Department said.
However, sources, said that there are several issues that are expected to crop up during the course of implementation.
“What if a school has just one or two students whose parents choose regional language? Will they be thrown out of school? Will they have a separate division just for them?” sources asked.
The logic baffles. The Department is in no position to explain how this will further help the process and why this move was made after the process of seeking parents views were taken.
Meanwhile, the Education Department will begin dealing with the forms it has already received.
Besides, the Department will also have to separately conduct inspections to see if schools have the necessary infrastructure before granting them permission to open separate divisions for the different choices of parents.
Questions are also being raised about the availability of textbooks in English with sources saying that even if the order was given to print text books, it would take at least another two months to be available.
The directorate of education supplies free textbooks to children under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan scheme.
Commenting on the situation, sources in the Education Department said that all these issues will be raised before the Government and that the new medium of instruction will not be implemented until all hurdles are cleared.
Courtesy : Herald
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