Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has said that 56 per cent of the students in class 3 to 8 in the State cannot read Bengali textbooks.
In a letter to leader of opposition Manik Sarkar, Deb on Thursday said that recent data revealed the poor condition of the students during their formative years with 1,80,000 school children not able to read Bengali textbook.
"The students should have learnt to read Bengali by Class 2. Also, 70 per cent students can't do division in Mathematics which they should have learnt in Class 3," he wrote. Deb said the BJP Government is struggling with the legacy of years of "systematised and institutionalised neglect of quality education" which got reflected in the data.