Assam Sahitya Sabha (ASS) president Paramananda Rajbongshi on Monday alleged that the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) was "conspiring to deprive students in its schools their "birth right" to study Assamese and other regional languages.
Rajbongshi at a Press conference here claimed that a recent KVS notification "will deprive the students in the Kendriya Vidyalaya schools in Assam along with the rest of the country of their birth right and democratic right to study Assamese and other indigenous languages".
He claimed that till last year teaching of mother tongue languages was carried out in Kendriya Vidyalaya schools, but the notification of March 29 making physical education and some other subjects compulsory had stated that classes on regional languages will be given for one hour either before school begins or at the end of it.
"This will compel students to remain in school for long hours from 7.45 am till 4 pm, naturally it will decrease the students interest to study their own language, and thereby the importance of imparting education in mother tongue in KVs will be lost", he said.