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<h1>Permit Konkani Primary Schools: Asmitai Pratishthan </h1>
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<h3 class="gmail-blue"></h3><div> <p></p>Team Herald </div><div> <p></p><br> </div><div> <p></p>PANJIM:
“The decision of the Goa Government not to permit new primary schools
in, inter-alia, Konkani language will not only prevent Goan parents from
initiating primary level instruction to their children in their
mother-tongue, but also is directly contradictory to the Government’s
Official Language Policy”, Asmitai Pratishthan said. </div><div> <p></p>In
a press release, the Pratishthan said, “The Director of Education
should realise the need to encourage civil society to set up Konkani
medium primary schools, especially because Government has not taken any
initiative for setting up Konkani schools after Liberation of Goa.
Wherever there is no existing Konkani medium school within 1 km of the
newly proposed Konkani school, the new Konkani school should be
permitted subject to the usual guidelines”. </div><div> <p></p>Congratulating
those who have applied for permissions to set up new primary schools in
Konkani, Prof Shyam Verencar, Pratishthan Secretary, urged the
concerned institutions and societies to continue their efforts with the
Government in the interest of preserving Konkani language and culture. </div></div></div>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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