[EDLING:142] Gunguly says 30,000 Japanese language students' target by 2010

[Francis M. Hult]

NewKerala.com

Gunguly says 30,000 Japanese language students' target by 2010

New Delhi, May 18: India will meet its target of 30,000 Japanese language 
students by 2010, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Chairman Ashok 
Ganguly said today.

While addressing the second All India conference on promotion of Japanese 
language education here Mr Ganguly said, ''We are introducing Japanese language 
as an optional foreign language in secondary school curriculum. Out of 9,000 
schools, 90 of them have implemented Japanese as an optional subject. Twenty 
schools implemented it last fiscal and 30 are likely to add it this financial 
year.'' The major hurdle being faced in is non-availability of teachers, Mr 
Ganguly said adding that there should be a paradigm shift in the style of 
teaching.

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