A day after the West Bengal Cabinet led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee approved a three-language formula where students across State-run schools in classes V-VIII, will have to study Bengali as a priority language, State Education Minister Bratya Basu on August 8 said that that government does not wish to impose Bengali.
The Minister said that the second and third languages will depend on the population pattern and ethnic profile of people living in a particular region.
The initiative of having three languages as a part of the curriculum comes in the new education policy being implemented in the State, at par with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. After the State Cabinet approved, a government official said that the “main idea is to teach Bengali to youngsters in West Bengal”.
