NAMSAI, May 29:      35-day workshop cum training on Tai Khamti Revised Script & Literature began today at Kongmu-Kham (Golden Pagoda) Monastery, Noi-Chenam Tengapani here today.            

Attending the opening ceremony of the workshop as the Chief Guest, Deputy Chief Minister, Chowna Mein in his inaugural speech termed the occasion as historic for the Tai Khamti Literature as the Tai Khamti Script will be introduced as third language in the Khamti inhabited schools from the coming session in Namsai District.

He urged the trainees to learn the script sincerely and become experts of the language. He announced that it is from among the successful trainees, third language teachers will be recruited for which the proposal of 37 posts of teachers has been sent to the Govt.            

He asked the Deputy Director of School Education, Namsai to devise a mechanism to teach the Tai Khamti literature as third language in a separate class to the students belonging to Tai Khamti community so that it does not create a confusion amongst the student of the other communities in the district.            

Mein expressed happiness to learn that the Department of Pali & Buddhist Studies of Arunachal University of Studies, Namsai has proposed to introduce  teaching of Tai Khamti Script & Literature in their University. He also urged the authorities of Pali Vidyapeeth College to teach Pali Script and Literature to their students.

            

            On the occasion, DCM also released the Workbook Edition I on Tai Khamti Script published by the Tai Khamti Heritage & Literary Society and sponsored by the Department of Education, Govt of Arunachal Pradesh.

           Parliamentary Secretary for Planning, Personnel & Training, Chau Zingnu Namchoom in his speech emphasized on preservation, reformation and promotion of the local language among the young generations. He said that the present transformation and reformation in the Tai Khamti Script & Literature could only be possible because of the personal initiatives taken by the Deputy Chief Minister, Chowna Mein and termed the period as the golden moment for the Thai Khamti Society.

He further said, “There will be no political interference in the recruitment of the third language teachers which shall be done purely on merit basis”.  

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
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