Assam to be a ‘laboratory’ for mother tongue-based education in India: Dharmendra Pradhan

Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday said that there are plans to make the state of Assam a “laboratory” for a unique “caste, tribe, and language-based education system”.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that the centre has decided to make Assam a laboratory for caste, tribe, language-based education system and mother tongue-based education in India.

He further said that language will be the basic instrument and the National Education Policy is a unifying factor in stimulating Indian knowledge systems, regional languages, arts and culture and in celebrating our diversity and strengths as a civilization.