In the face of severe protests from different student organizations, civil societies and political parties, the Tripura Board of Secondary Education said it would allow both Roman and Bengali scripts as the script of choice for writing answer scripts of Kokborok paper in the board examinations scheduled to be held in 20 days. The development comes after the TBSE chief …
Agartala: The Tripura United Indigenous Returnees People’s Council, an umbrella of the 48 different smaller returnee bodies on Saturday filed a complaint against the Tripura Board of Secondary Education president, Dr Dhananjoy Ganchoudhury and the TBSE secretary for their alleged misbehaviour with delegation, police said. According to the complaint filed at the New Capital Complex police station, the board officials …
The Twipra Students’ Federation, an independent tribal student organisation, called for a 12-hour bandh on Monday to demand the implementation of Roman script for Kokborok, Tripura’s second official language. Hamalu Jamatia, general secretary of the TSF, said they were compelled to announce the strike as the present and past governments of the State ignored the demand of the indigenous people. …
The proposal to impose Hindi as a uniform language is certain to have serious socio-political repercussions in the ethnically and linguistically sensitive State of Tripura. The tribal population, which accounts for 30 per cent of the State’s population and voted for the Bharatiya Janata Party-Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura alliance in the 2018 election, is already on the warpath against …