The Twipra College students’ Federation (TSF) on Friday sat on an indefinite strike demanding the Roman script be allowed for the Kokborok language, spoken by a majority of the indigenous group within the state.
Tripura CM Manik Saha with TIPRA Motha chief Pradyot Kishore Debbarma. (Picture from X)
The strike was held in a number of components of the state, together with the capital metropolis of Agartala, with incidents of highway blockades and burning tyres additionally being reported. Their calls for embrace a decision on the problem of the Kokborok language script and rescheduling of CBSE class 10 and 12 board examinations for Kokborok topic.
“The students got Kokborok question paper written in Bengali language. They wanted it in Roman script. We see that the Tripura government, TBSE (Tripura Board of Secondary Education) and CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) are playing with the academic career of the students. That’s why we called the indefinite strike from today (Friday). But we want to give a message to the people that we are not against anyone and any language,” one TSF chief informed reporters.
The TSF, in a letter written to TIPRA Motha get together founder Pradyot Kishore Debbarma, appealed to increase his assist to their motion and ask his get together legislators and ministers to boost the problem throughout the meeting session.
“As the foremost leader of the indigenous community, we appeal to you to publicly support our movement and direct all MLAs and Ministers from your party to raise this critical issue in the upcoming Assembly session. “Their collective voice in the Assembly is crucial in securing justice for Kokborok-speaking students and ensuring the rightful place of our language,” their letter learn.
Pradyot, on this March 8, sought the intervention of Union schooling minister Dharmendra Pradhan to take motion on the long-lasting row over the introduction of Roman script for Kokborok language throughout the TBSE and CBSE board examinations.
He mentioned he would additionally meet chief minister Manik Saha for a probe into the problem to seek out out which lecturers didn’t comply with the instruction and why.
Kokborok acquired its recognition as an official state language in 1979 for the primary time. Two commissions led by former legislator Shyama Charan Tripura in 1900 and linguist Pabitra Sarkar in 2004 have been constituted however the debate over the script of the language is but to be solved.
The row over Kokborok script began final 12 months January after TBSE chief Dr. Dhananjoy Gonchoudhury requested all of the examination middle in-charges to permit solely Bengali script for writing Kokborok paper within the Class 12 and 10 board examinations scheduled to start from March 1 and a pair of attributable to inadequate certified evaluators to test reply copies written in Roman script.
This invited protests from TIPRA Motha and different totally different social organizations after which the TBSE chief mentioned that the scholars can be allowed to write down within the script of their choice.
Later, he was instructed by his greater authority to proceed the board examination solely permitting Bengali script until the Central Board of Secondary Training give any reply on it.
Lastly, the state authorities intervened and mentioned that the examinations can be performed in each Bengali and Roman scripts.