Governor –cum-Chancellor of Universities in State, Droupadi Murmu has urged the State Universities to focus on research in regional and tribal languages at the same time acquaintance of Hindi and English language to students studying in these departments.
The Governor made the observation to Vice Chancellors of State universities through video conferencing on the topic education standard at regional and tribal language departments. The Governor stressing the importance of regional and tribal languages said, “In Jharkhand there are 32 tribal groups of which several are Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG)s.
These tribal groups are deep rooted with the language and customs. In such a situation efforts should be made so that these tribal groups apart from learning their languages there is a career opportunity for them.” Murmu said that these tribal students have immense potential and effort should be made to create a job market for them in tribal art and artifice. The video conferencing was attended by principal secretary to Governor, education department principal secretary, deputy director higher education and Vice Chancellors of Ranchi University (Ranch), Nilamber-Pitambar University (NPU) (Palamu), Sido Kanhu Murmu University, Dumka, Kolhan University (Chaibasa), Vinoba Bhave University (Hazaribag), Binod Bihari Mahto Koyalanchal University, (Dhanbad), Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University (Ranchi).
The Governor also talked about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message on giving stress on improvement in regional and tribal language in the new education policy introduced by the education department last week. The Governor in her message said that in Jharkhand tribal population accounts to nearly 26 per cent while nationally they account 10 per cent of total population.
The Governor asked vacancies in these departments along with efforts being taken by universities in their growth and development.
The VCs attending the video conference informed the Governor that tribal students after completing their studies from these departments are either pursuing academic lines completing NET/JRF while many are going in banking, railway and other services.