[EDLING:190] Mangalore: Academy looks forward to Konkani teaching in over 100 schools

[Francis M. Hult]

Mangalorean

Academy looks forward to Konkani teaching in over 100 schools

Come Monday, and Mangalore-based Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy will receive 
3,000 Konkani textbooks published by the Directorate of State Education 
Research and Training. These textbooks will be used to launch the official 
teaching of Konkani as the third optional language for students of sixth 
standard.

President of the academy Eric Ozario told presspersons here on Friday that he 
was eagerly looking forward to Konkani being taught in a formal set-up in 
schools across the State in general and coastal parts of Karnataka in 
particular. The language was taught in 55 schools in this part of the State 
during the last academic year under an initiative of the academy in a non-
formal set up.

Mr. Ozario said that about 3,000 students in 100 schools were expected to learn 
the language. Mr. Ozario appealed to all sections of Konkani speaking 
communities to make best use of this opportunity and ensure that teaching 
Konkani in schools became a self-sustaining movement.

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