GUWAHATI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that all eight North-Eastern states have agreed to make Hindi compulsory in schools up to Class X, a statement issued by the Home Ministry stated.
“We Must learn the skill of language. I would like to urge the Hindi Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, which is a Central University and where Hindi is the medium of language, to open up a campus here in Assam, Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu told the media.
Earlier on April 7, while presiding over the 37th meeting of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee on the premises of the parliament, Shah said, “Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English and not to local languages unless we make Hindi flexible by accepting words from other local languages, it will not be propagated".
“Twenty-two thousand Hindi teachers have been recruited in the eight states of the North East,” Shah said. “Nine tribal communities of the North East have converted their dialects’ scripts to Devanagari.”
Further, the Union Home Minister said when the people of states converse with each other, it should be an Indian language whether regional or state-specific and emphasised the need to accept Hindi as an alternative to English.
