29th Mar 2017 10:03:PM State
Eastern Sentinel Arunachal News

 

 

ITANAGAR, Mar 29:

Governor PB Acharya congratulated and appreciated MP Lok Sabha, Ninong Ering, for introducing a Bill in Parliament for compulsory teaching of North East culture in educational institutions.

The Governor observed that most Universities in the country have Department for foreign languages, but none for Tribal Dialects. He stated that if one has to respect a person, one has to respect him in toto, his dress, language – dialect, food habits, physical features, etc. He felt that Universities have to open up their mind towards tribals in general and the people of North East in particular. As a first step, the Universities can open a Department/Chair to learn, speak and read beautiful tribal dialects of North East India, ‘NAMASTE’ States (N -  Nagaland, A – Arunachal, M – Manipur, A – Assam, M – Mizoram, M – Meghalaya, T - Tripura and S – Sikkim) 8 States, and  can be known as NAMASTE – NE Department, the Governor added.

The Governor said that under his initiative, NITTE Health & Science University of Mangaluru has already opened a Chair in the name of Rani Ma Gaidinliu for teaching tribal dialects under NAMASTE- NE Department and has completed two batches of four tribal dialects in Manipuri, Assamese, Mao and Khasi as six months certificate course.

He also added that Alva’s Education Foundation, Moodabidri and Manipal University in Mangaluru will be opening Chair/Department for North East Tribal Dialects shortly while Mumbai University and SNDT Women University (Mumbai), Symbiosis and KARVE University from Pune have also responded positively to open a Chair/Department for tribal dialects. 

The Governor was positive that the move will bring awareness about the culture and history of North East in the Schools and Colleges in other State of the Country.


Kenter Joya Riba

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