The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is growing rapidly in NE through education. Initially, RSS attempted to build local relationships through Bengali settlers and Bihari and Marwari traders, sensing an opportunity in the friction between the local ethnic population and the migrants. But by the 1970s, the RSS had realized it would not be enough to …
Mokokchung, June 21 (MTNews): With reference to a news item “ANHSU serves ultimatum on State Government” published in sections of the local media, the Department of School Education, Nagaland has clarified on June 21 that the requisite qualifications prescribed in the advertisement for the post of Graduate Teacher (Hindi) are as per the Nagaland School …
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Mokokchung, June 9 (MTNews): While appreciating the Department of School Education (DoSE), Nagaland for taking ‘penal action’ against 441 erring government teachers, the Rising People’s Party (RPP) has questioned the department on an advertisement issued by it on May 30 regarding recruitment of Hindi graduate teachers. For the post requirement of 58 Hindi graduate …
RPP: Does Nagaland lack qualified Hindi graduates and post graduates? Read More »
Mark Twain rightly said; “India is the cradle of the human race, the birth place of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.” In many aspects, India …
The statement of Union Home Minister, Shri. Amit Shah, during the 37th meeting of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee in New Delhi, on 7th April that “all eight states of the Northeast region have agreed to make Hindi compulsory subject till class 10” certainly raised some eyebrows in the region. The issue, of course, …
The Naga Students’ Federation has “vehemently” opposed the proposal made by the Parliamentary Official Language Committee to impose Hindi language as a component of MIL till Class 10 in the North East states. The NSF said in a press release, “there exists a plethora of Indigenous groups with diverse culture, race, language and religion …
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How does the Home Ministry in Delhi get to impose Hindi in the schools of the Northeast? Good question. But let’s start from the beginning because history matters, and in this case the past has caught up with the present with vengeance. In the early 1950s, Mahasabha activist Bhuddeshwar Gohain, Headmaster of Seikho Government …
Public Statement Against the Imposition of Hindi in the Naga Homeland: Global Naga Forum Read More »
Memory has not yet lapsed when a representative addressed the august house of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly in Hindi language. His maiden address in Hindi had evoked applause as well as public backlash, although the debate that ensued thereafter never reached a logical conclusion. After a short spell of stillness, the central government chose …
Mokokchung, April 11 (MTNews): The Global Naga Forum (GNF) on Monday stated that a “Hindi-Hindu-centric national education” in Nagaland and the whole of the Northeast is the BJP’s current goal, and making Hindi compulsory is an intentional step in that direction. It termed the imposition of Hindi in the eight northeastern states as a vision …
GNF likens Shah’s statement to systematic abuse of Naga people Read More »
Amid the row and sharp reaction over the statement by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah that all the eight North East States have agreed to make Hindi compulsory up to Class X, the Department of School Education, Nagaland, has clarified that it has not received any instruction for making Hindi compulsory in the secondary …
