It is said that education is the backbone of a nation and one’s mother tongue is the best medium for education. In reality, in a country not all people are fortunate to receive education in their mother tongue.
The Curriculum Development Centre has prepared school level textbooks in 12 different languages for students who want to study in their mother tongue and the schools that want to run classes in the mother languages.
Speaking at a discussion programme on 'Education in Mother Tongue' organised by the Education Journalists' Group here Friday, the participants complained about the lack of adequate teachers to teach in the mother tongues and the shortage of textbooks.
Acting Director of the CDC, Chitra Prasad Devkota said the Center was doing homework for promoting education in the mother tongue. He said that the Centre is going to publish textbooks in two more mother tongues.
There are 92 registered languages in Nepal. Amrit Yonzan, president, Language and Literature Council said that in many languages there are no teachers but large number of students and vice versa. He also blamed government and parents for not allowing their kids to acquire education in mother tongue. Another major problem is that many languages are oral languages. Due to lack of scripts, it is not possible to write textbooks into those languages.
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