By Vishu Adhana
JNU Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit Wednesday mentioned pushing a specific language or any regional language “too hard” may result in regionalism as language is a really “sensitive” concern which could be taken benefit of by some.
Pandit, the college’s first lady vice chancellor, advised PTI in an interview that there isn’t any place for violence on the campus and college students with political aspirations ought to pursue their pursuits outdoors the college.
She additionally addressed the difficulty of the National Education Policy being opposed by a bit of academics. “It (NEP) is just a document. This is not anything that is being pushed down on anybody. I think we can take good things from it. And maybe next NEP that comes next time will go one step better than this.” On multilingualism within the NEP, She asserted the federal government must be cautious about pushing regional languages and it shouldn’t result in “strong regional identities”.
The NEP replaces the 34-year-old National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986 and goals for universalisation of training from pre-school to secondary degree with 100 % Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) at school training by 2030 and goals to lift GER in larger training to 50% by 2025.
The NEP recommends that mom tongue/native language be a medium of instruction in additional Higher training institutes (HEIs) programme.
“NEP is for multilingualism and I totally support it. The only thing I have a slight difference of opinion is how we are going to teach in 27 languages of India,” Pandit mentioned. “They tell us to teach students in their mother tongue. Then what will be the link language… is something I am a little worried about. I come from the state of Tamil Nadu as soon as you say mother tongue we have a very strong opinion.” She prompt the federal government ought to promote regional languages inside the framework of multilingualism.
“If you push for regional language…we must…but we should push it within the framework of multilingualism. Here I would agree with the three-language formula. Like everybody must learn three languages,” she mentioned.
When requested whether or not pushing one explicit language may result in regionalism, she replied within the affirmative.
“Yes it can if we push it too hard. We say our official languages are two — English and Hindi — but somehow we prefer one to the other. And southern states and non-Hindi state might not agree. If you push it too hard it will lead to demands that Tamil Nadu is making today. It is very sensitive,” she mentioned.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Ok Stalin has been demanding that Tamil be made an official language in all central authorities workplaces.
“We have to be a little careful on languages because it is a thing of primordial identity. At the same time, don’t push this regional mother tongue too much because people can take advantage of that as linguistic parties are quite popular,” she added The debate over Hindi versus different regional languages has deepened in latest weeks. In April, Union Home Minister Amit Shah mentioned Hindi needs to be accepted as an alternative choice to English and to not native languages.
Asserting that reform in training was wanted, the vice-chancellor mentioned the schools should take “good things” from the NEP.
“For several years, we had no reforms in the education system. We need reforms. You may not agree with it but you don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. There are some good aspects to it. Everything can be reformed can be bettered,” she mentioned. Amid allegations by a bit of academics relating to the “imposition” of the NEP with none dialogue within the statutory our bodies, she harassed it was not being compelled upon anyone.
The college had adopted the NEP in the course of the tenure of then VC M Jagadesh Kumar who’s now heading the University Grants Commission (UGC).
In April this 12 months, two teams of scholars clashed on the college’s Kaveri Hostel allegedly over serving of non-vegetarian meals on Ram Navami within the mess, with police saying six college students had been injured within the violence.
On incidents of violence in JNU, the vice-chancellor mentioned that the JNU is a politically energetic campus. “Ninety per cent of the students are apolitical. Only 10 per cent are troublemakers.” “They (students) think their political career can be built at the JNU. You know last time what happened, all who did politics are in jail. Why are you wasting your time? If you want to be a politician then go outside and fight elections. Who is stopping you? India is a free country,” she mentioned.
On January 5, 2020, a mob of masked males had stormed the campus and focused college students in three hostels, unleashing mayhem with sticks, stones and iron rods, hitting inmates and breaking home windows, furnishings and private belongings.
At least 28 folks, together with JNU Students’ Union president Aishe Ghosh, had been injured within the chaos.
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