Chhattisgarh School Education Minister Premsai Singh on Friday told officials to formulate a concrete plan for imparting quality education to students of tribal areas.
The plan must be chalked out as per the linguistic survey conducted and efforts must be done to prefer the mother tongue as a language of education, he said.
Speaking at a two-day workshop on linguistic survey and multilingual education scheme, the Minister said the teachers must be trained in line with the demand.
The Minister appreciated the officials for completing the linguistic survey on time and said Chhattisgarh was the first state to do so.
In all the educational policies and commission’s report it has been stressed to give importance to teaching in mother tongue, he said.
The workshop was organized by Samagra Shiksha and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)