Schools reopened, but 3rd language books not ready
Pune: While the three-language policy has been made mandatory for state board schools from Class I to V from this year, the govt has not printed any third language textbooks for students and teachers to follow though the new academic sessions has already started.
Even syllabi for the third languages are not ready, sources said.
Officials from Balbharati, the textbook production bureau, said they can start printing the books only after receiving the work order. Mahendra Ganpule, spokesperson for Maharashtra School Principals Federation, said syllabi must be approved before printing, so it will be 2-3 months into the academic year before students get the textbooks.
Officials from Balbharati, the textbook production bureau of the state, said they can start printing the books only after receiving the work order from Maharashtra Prathamik Shiksha Parishad, which is responsible for providing free textbooks in civic schools from Class I to VIII and in the open market.
Class I students in mediums other than Marathi have not yet received Marathi books as they have not been printed.
Rahul Rekhawar, director of SCERT, said the syllabus for Marathi textbook for Class I for students studying in mediums other than Marathi and English has been finalised, and the book is almost ready. "Balbharati will be able to print textbooks and distribute them across the state in about a month. For third language books of other languages, we will complete the process based on the same syllabus, which is easy and interactive and focuses only on listening and speaking age-appropriate and need-based sentences," he added.
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The govt resolution on Tuesday said Hindi is no longer a mandatory third language and students can choose any other Indian language as the third language.
Balbharati's director K K Patil said for third language textbooks or any other textbooks, they need to know the number of books to print. "The requirement order comes from Samagra Shiksha project under Maharashtra Prathamik Shiksha Parishad, which is the nodal body that distributes free textbooks to all local body-run schools and others for Classes I to VIII.
Once we get an order from MPSP as well as the demand from the open market, we will be able to print the entire set within 10 days.
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Vasant Kalpande, ex-chairman of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, said when they opposed the April GR making Hindi compulsory, the education minister promised a committee and dialogue to look into the third language controversy. But a decision was unilaterally made.
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