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What Dangerous Portent and Intent Does the Move Really Carry Volume 48 No. 10 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST) January 1, 2015 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 2.00 Replacing German with Sanskrit What dangerous portent and intent does the move really carry People who feel concerned terming it skilling to fit the global institutions, the KVs are the most policy at different times. about the future of a truly scientific market and demand. With this directly union government-controlled Implemented to quench the secular universal education in India, fusion of blind faith and mechanized schools. The government decided to massive, often violent, movements have started to see red afresh from thinking of technology in lieu of real set the ball rolling from these against the imposition of Hindi by certain unwarranted moves in the scientific import of knowledge they institutions under their control. the Union government in the 1960s, education field of the country want to turn the youth into the policy itself turned out to be a coming from the BJP government in dehumanized robots with Three language formula disguised means to impose Hindi power at the Centre. These leave regimentation of thoughts and striking at the root of language over the country. It was even at the no doubt that they stem from the without the power of rational teaching cost of education through mother attempts of the present BJP-led judgement to seek and know the The issue in question i.e., tongue, the most desirable vehicle Union government to pursue and truth and without the courage to language teaching, is monitored by for the students. With attention of implement the Hindutva agenda of rise up against injustice, oppression some ‘three language formula/ students diverted among three the RSS- BJP combine in the field of and exploitation. They wish it would policy’ introduced by the Union languages, it undermined, as well, education with renewed vigour. help them to keep on running the Congress government in the sixties acquisition of proper and adequate Right from the inception of their present system, of which they are of the last century. Later the proficiency in English without present term only a few months now in charge of governance. governments of other parties also which students cannot be introduced back, they have revamped their The Hindutvavadi campaign largely and essentially accepted the Contd. on page 2 drive on the plea of rejuvenating was not going to stop. It has ‘Indian glory’ and of ‘Indianizing cropped up afresh with the Kendriya In protest of dastardly Peshawar massacre education’ freeing it from the ‘spell Vidyalayas (KVs) centring round of westernization’. On the pages of the issue of their teaching German SUCI (C) condemns brutal Peshawar Proletarian Era issue of December or Sanskrit. But it is very much 1, 2014 we went through their design apprehended from the government’s killing by Talibanis and calls upon people in some detail to expose that this own admission that the aftermath was no less than a fascistic move of the KV issue will reach the to intensify anti-imperialist to put the country’s education in other schools too in days to come. anti-communal movement to stop this total jeopardy. From behind the garb To ascertain what lies behind the of such vocabulary they have issue, we may require some relevant barbarism of fundamentalists-terrorists chosen, what they intend is to totally background information. Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C), has issued destroy the modern scientific Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) the following statement on 17 December 2014 : secular education replacing it with belong to one of the four major an education based on blind faith kinds of schools operative in the This savagery is unpardonable. We have no language to condemn and obscurantist ideas and Hindu- country. The KVs follow a syllabus the brutal killing of 140 odd innocent students of Army Public School of religious dogma, dishing it out as broadly similar to that of the CBSE Peshawar by the armed murderers of fundamentalist Tehrik-e-Taliban our traditional education of the syllabus along with their own carrying out such terror attacks and mindless killings in different parts Vedas and Vedantas. At the same additions and alterations. The Board of the world with felonious fury. All religious fundamentalist forces time, to keep the prevailing of Governors of this Kendriya including Talibanis, it may be recalled, were once created, nurtured, and capitalist system running they wish Vidyalaya Sangathan is headed by used by the imperialists, particularly the US imperialists, to destroy all to allure a privileged section of youth the Union HRD minister. And so, progressive democratic movement and rational mind of the people. and people with advanced yet even during these days of spate of Now they all including the Talibanis whom the US imperialists had mechanized technological education privatization of educational Contd. on page 10 Left : Students assembled on 28 December in front of Central Office of AIDSO at 48 Lenin Sarani, Kolkata on the 60th anniversary of the organization. Right : Leaders on the dais at the inaugural programme at Sraddhananda Park, Kolkata on the same day PAGE TWO JANUARY 1, 2015 PROLETARIAN ERA German-Sanskrit controversy Saffron brigade whip up controversy throwing student interest to the winds Contd. from page 1 namely French or German as a and not the above or secondary associated. Since language is the to the world of the most advanced third language. In 2011 (23 level. With it, German is not banned vehicle of thought and knowledge, knowledge of the time in any branch September) during the tenure of from Kendriya Vidyalayas. It merely the policy of language teaching at of knowledge and epistemology. In the second UPA government a remains no longer an official third the school level is crucially short it was a disastrous policy so to MOU was signed between language. In the process the important. It is not just an issue of a say, in so far as language teaching in Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan and German Ambassador Herr Steiner few students of a few batches. The schools was concerned. In essence Goethe-Institute, Max Mueller and the German Chancellor Frau policy concerns the entire nation. the policy entailed: Students should Bhawan. It made KVs to switch to Merkel have also been assured that This perspective must be taken into study three languages. These are German instead of an Indian German will be given its due status due consideration. To be precise, namely: First language ( apparently regional language as the third and respect. Sensing problem and proper language teaching and a ‘must’): mother tongue or regional/ language and the schools made under pressure of opposition, the choice of language or languages to state language; Second language ( their Sanskrit teachers and other HRD minister is said to have be compulsorily taught at the school with a note of option ‘will be’) : a) primary teachers to learn German. instructed the Kendriya Vidyalaya level are guided by three in Hindi-speaking states: some other Around 500 KVs were offering Board to be lenient in checking considerations. modern Indian language or English German. papers of the third language as Firstly the language must act as and b) in non-Hindi speaking states: There was a writ petition palliative and on the plea of ensuring a gateway to higher advanced Hindi or English; and Third language against the order and then, in a implementation of the decision. She knowledge of the time. These days (again with a note of option ‘will sudden and grossly arbitrary move, has added that the affected students such a knowledge can be acquired be’) in both Hindi-speaking and non- on 27 October 2014, the Board of will be provided with counselling and only through learning of different Hindi-speaking states: English or a Governors of the Kendriya they will have the option of picking modern subjects like science, modern Indian language not studied Vidyalaya Sangathan, headed by any Indian language as the third literature, social sciences as well as as second language. The policy or the Union HRD minister decided in language instead of Sanskrit. applied science or technology, the the formula was continued its meeting that “teaching of Those opposing the move are latter at higher levels conveying mandated by the Congress German language as an option to arguing that German was only one of higher and developed thoughts and government in the NPE 1986. Sanskrit will be discontinued the options for the third language knowledge. After KVs decided to adopt the forthwith”. “German can be taught offered by the KVS and the MoU Secondly, language should be a Three Language Formula in 1988, to such students of class VI to VIII was never intended to make it convenient generally accepted regional languages were initially to as an additional subject of hobby compulsory. However, the fact that means of communication and be made available there as third class , if they so desire, but not as over 70,000 students across 500 expression of thoughts at all levels language options. However, this a third language as it violates the schools opted for German speaks of personal and social life of system was never implemented Three Language Formula and there volumes about the preference among different sections of population. effectively on the plea of so-called shall be no violation on National students and parents to avoid This is more important particularly logistical issues (organising teachers, Policy of Education/National Sanskrit and to learn a foreign in a country like India where there classes and other logistics to Curriculum Framework/Three language instead to boost their career are so many groups of people facilitate each student’s demand).
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