{"id":32788,"date":"2017-05-27T00:53:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T00:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2017\/05\/27\/govt-to-introduce-local-languages-in-all-schools\/"},"modified":"2017-05-27T00:53:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T00:53:20","slug":"govt-to-introduce-local-languages-in-all-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2017\/05\/27\/govt-to-introduce-local-languages-in-all-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to introduce local languages in all schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Principal secretary, school education and SCERT, FP Solo, Friday informed that the state government has decided to introduce local languages in all the schools both government and private, and do away alternative English from Class V to VIII in a phased manner from next year.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>He said the move was with the view to preserve, protect and promote local languages and to give opportunity to every child to learn his or her mother tongue.<\/div>\n<div>He appealed to all the stakeholders to cooperate in implementing the important policy of the government.<\/div>\n<div>Solo said this in his address during presentation of Governor\u2019s award and NBSE award to the toppers and felicitation of rank holder of the HSLC and HSSLC examinations held at Raj Bhavan on Friday.<\/div>\n<div>Stressing the importance of preserving mother tongue, principal secretary said that according to UNESCO all the Naga languages were in the list of endangered languages, which could face extinction if proper care was not taken to preserve them.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>He said unfortunately 90% of Naga students opted for alternative English in lieu of local languages and some children speak either English or Nagamese at home. \u201cIf this trend continues, we would lose our uniqueness and identity which our forefathers fought so hard to preserve them,\u201d Solo said.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal secretary, school education and SCERT, FP Solo, Friday informed that the state government has decided to introduce local languages in all the schools both government and private, and do away alternative English from Class V to VIII in a phased manner from next year.&nbsp; He said the move was with the view to preserve, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}