The leader of opposition and TIPRA Motha MLA Animesh Debbarma on Monday expressed his concern over the role of the government in including Roman script for Kokborok language and asked the government if it has taken any policy on this.
Replying to the query of Debbarma in the assembly session on Monday, the education minister (in-charge) Ratan Lal Nath said that the government is yet to take any ‘policy decision’ on allowing students to write Kokborok language answer papers in Roman script.
“There are around 5,000 Kokborok-speaking students who are scheduled to appear in the CBSE examination starting on February 15. If these students are not allowed to write Kokborok language answer papers in Roman script, they will face difficulties as they cannot write papers in Bengali script,” he said.
Meanwhile, the CPI-M MLA Jitendra Choudhury claimed that during the Left regime, Kokborok-speaking students were allowed to write answers in both Bengali and Roman scripts.
Dismissing Choudhury’s claim, the in-charge education minister said the CBSE has already rejected the introduction of Kokborok language in both Bengali and Roman scripts, as it allows only one.
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