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Promote mother tongue, AMU academics say
Tuesday February 21, 2012 10:58:50 PM,
IANS
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Aligarh: It is vitally
important to educate children in their mother tongue, experts said
at a seminar where other speakers called on the government to
promote Urdu.
Aligarh Muslim University’s (AMU) T.B. Chakrborty pointed out that
experts and linguistics feel that the mother tongue was the best
medium for educating children.
Jasim Mohammad, editor of The Aligarh Movement magazine, said
official apathy had badly wounded Urdu. “It has become almost
impossible to educate our children in that language.”
He said while the freedom struggle was fought on the Urdu slogan
‘Inquilab Zindabad’, today communal groups have erected a wall
between Urdu and Hindi “when both are Indian Languages”.
Millat Bedari Muhim Committee (MBMC) president Razaullah Khan
complained that regional languages were not getting due attention
in the media and in the government.
Shaikh Mastan, chairman of Modern Indian Languages at AMU, called
for the use of mother tongue at primary levels of education.
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