All 8 North East States Have Agreed To Make Hindi Compulsory In Schools: Amit Shah

Guwahati: Union Minister of Home Affairs (MHA) has said that all eight North-Eastern states have agreed to make Hindi compulsory in schools up to class X.

He said this while presiding over the 37th meeting of the parliamentary Official Language committee in New Delhi on Thursday.

The Minister informed members that now 70 per cent of the agenda of the Cabinet is prepared in Hindi.

''22,000 Hindi teachers have been recruited in the eight states of the North East. Also, nine tribal communities of the North East have converted their dialects' scripts to Devanagari. Apart from this, all the eight states of the North East have agreed to make Hindi compulsory in schools up to Class X,'' he added.

However, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday clarified that the state government has not received any direction in this regard.

"Forget about compulsory, Assam government has not even received a letter asking Hindi to be made an optional subject in the schools. Amit Shah's statement has been misinterpreted," Sarma said.

He further said that the state government has planned to introduce a language policy that would focus on teaching at least four languages to the students of the state.

The CM went on to say that they want a student to learn Assamese, an ethnic language apart from Hindi and English in Assam and he concluded by saying that a student's opportunities will only expand by learning a language.

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