BJP demands Khasi & Garo as compulsory school subjects

Our Bureau

SHILLONG, August 06 2020: BJP State President, Ernest Mawrie Thursday said that a meeting of the State Office Bearers of the party discussed the new National Education Policy (NEP 2020). He informed that the State Office Bearers unanimously demanded that Khasi/ Garo should be made as one compulsory subject for all students in all schools of the state.

He said that all schools in the state, whether government or private, or run by various religious or social organisations, should be brought under the new National Education Policy (NEP 2020), and it should be made mandatory for them to teach at least one local language as one subject to all students. Mawrie said that he would also be writing to the Chief Minister Conrad Sangma and the education minister Lakmen Rymbui regarding this.

While terming the National Education Policy as historic Mawrie said it was long overdue, and lauded the Central Government for the holistic overhauling of the education system in the country. He insisted that the state government should implement the provisions of the NEP immediately.