state policy on multilingual education in odisha 2014
Multilingual Education
Odisha is a multilingual state having more than 40 ethnic language among the 62 scheduled tribes , along with the Modern Indian Languages like Hindi , Bengali and Telugu . To address the language - education of ethnic minorities children in schools , Odisha government started Multilingual Education programme , ten tribal languages . Led by Dr MAhendra Kumar Mishra , as the Director of Multilingual Education and guided by Prof. DP Pattanayak and Prof Khageswar Mahapatra , the eminent multilingual Experts , the state government started MLE programme in te tribal languages in 547 schools . 10 tribal languages were adopted . These are Santali , Saora , Kui , Kuvi , Koya , Kishan , Oroam , Juang , Bonda and Ho . Culturally responsive curriculum and text books were prepared for class i to Class V to maintain mother tongue based multilingual education to educate the tribal children . State government appointed teachers from the same language community in the schools to teach the tribal children. A language policy was also formulated . The programme was also supported by Summer Institute of Linguistics led by Mr Steve Simpson and Vicky Simpson , Pamela Mackenzie . The curriculum and text books were prepared by the tribal teachers guided by the MLE resource groups . It was initiated in 2005 and isnow running in 2250 schools with majority tribal children . This is a sustained MLE programme in Asian countries. About 7 Asian countries have visited the MLE schools . Dr 
Odisha is a multilingual state having more than 40 ethnic language among the 62 scheduled tribes , along with the Modern Indian Languages like Hindi , Bengali and Telugu . To address the language - education of ethnic minorities children in schools , Odisha government started Multilingual Education programme , ten tribal languages . Led by Dr MAhendra Kumar Mishra , as the Director of Multilingual Education and guided by Prof. DP Pattanayak and Prof Khageswar Mahapatra , the eminent multilingual Experts , the state government started MLE programme in te tribal languages in 547 schools . 10 tribal languages were adopted . These are Santali , Saora , Kui , Kuvi , Koya , Kishan , Oroam , Juang , Bonda and Ho . Culturally responsive curriculum and text books were prepared for class i to Class V to maintain mother tongue based multilingual education to educate the tribal children . State government appointed teachers from the same language community in the schools to teach the tribal children. A language policy was also formulated . The programme was also supported by Summer Institute of Linguistics led by Mr Steve Simpson and Vicky Simpson , Pamela Mackenzie . The curriculum and text books were prepared by the tribal teachers guided by the MLE resource groups . It was initiated in 2005 and isnow running in 2250 schools with majority tribal children . This is a sustained MLE programme in Asian countries. About 7 Asian countries have visited the MLE schools . Dr
Odisha is a multilingual state having more than 40 ethnic language among the 62 scheduled tribes. To address the language education of ethnic minorities children in schools, Odisha government started Multilingual Education programme, ten tribal languages. They are Santali, Saora, Kui, Kuvi, Koya, Kishan, Oroam, Juang, Bonda and Ho.
Odisha is a multilingual state having more than 40 ethnic language among the 62 scheduled tribes , along with the Modern Indian Languages like Hindi , Bengali and Telugu . To address the language - education of ethnic minorities children in schools , Odisha government started Multilingual Education programme , ten tribal languages . These are Santali , Saora , Kui , Kuvi , Koya , Kishan , Oroam , Juang , Bonda and Ho .