Discrimination against Nepali language in West Bengal - Accuses teachers

"Nepali Textbook for Class 11 and 12 Full of Errors - Nepali Teachers Claim Discrimination Against Our Language"

Since the Trinmool congress government came to power, linguistic minorities in the state have been feeling the discrimination against almost all languages other than Bengali.

 discriminated against Nepali language - Accuse teachers

Recently The Darjeeling Chronicle had reported on how old Adivasi tea garden workers were being deprived of Widow pension as they could not fill the Panchayat forms due to their inability to understand Bengali. The DC had also reported on how the Six hill candidates had been prevented from appearing for WB College Services Commission Exams for not selecting Bengali as one of their language choices. Similarly , they also reported on how the West Bengal government was using only Bengali for communications.

But all of the above pales when you read the following.

The Nepali textbook for Class 11 and 12 published by the West Bengal Council for Higher Secondary Education is full of mistakes and errors. Such is the extent of the mistake that the cover page itself contains misspelling and gaping error.

Gaping error in the cover is just the start, the content are full of horrendous mistakes, which are by no means mere editorial error, but point towards the deliberate lack of seriousness towards development of the book, and thus discrimination of our language. For instance, the text book published by WBCHSE wrongly attributes the novel "Juneli Rekha" as being written by Shri. Prakash Kobid, but Kobid ji never wrote "Juneli Rekha" rather he had written "Tara Kahiley," and "Juneli Rekha" was written by Shri Indra Sundash.

These are not errors, this shows the utter contempt in which minority languages are being treated in Mamata Banerjee's Bengal.

What is shocking is that the WBBSE board responsible for Nepali under the Presidentship of Dr. Muktinath Chatterjee also contains our own people. According to the acknowledged section of the text book the board members for Nepali are: Dr. N R Pradhan, Mr. Bashant Kumar Rai, Smt Gita Thapa, Mr. Ujjwal Prakash Bomzan etc. We wonder what were they doing? Did they even bother to read the manuscript before it went for publication?

Our children are not being given proper reading materials in our Mother tongue. This is not just shameful, but also points towards neglect, and contempt of the highest order towards our Mother Tongue.

The DC blame these Gorkhali board members more than anyone else who did not do their due diligence because of which our children have been handed textbooks full of errors.

Source: Darjeeling Chronicle

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