PANJIM: Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch (BBSM) President Subhash Velingkar called on Governor Satya Pal Malik requesting that government grants be provided only to regional language primary schools in the State.
A three-member delegation of the BBSM, led by Avadhut Ramchandra Kamat, convener of the Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch, met the Governor of Goa, Satya Pal Malik, and gave him a detailed account of the mother tongue media issue in Goa.
The visit took place as per the backdrop of the recent passage of the new 2020 National Education Policy by the Central Government in Parliament.
A detailed decision to grant government grants to English-medium church-sponsored primary schools, breaking the 21-year-old tradition so far since 1990.
“The then Congress government in 2011 and the subsequent Parrikar government in 2012, in opposition to the national education policy of awarding mother tongue education in foreign languages.” said Velingkar
He said, “We Request the Governor to give justice to mother tongue education according to the new national policy by canceling English primary grant, which is strangling mother tongue Marathi and Konkani in Goa.”
