No text book in Meitei Mayek for Manipuri subject
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 18 2017:
Even though Graduate courses for the academic session 2017-18 has already commenced, no text book for Manipuri subject is available .
In line with the gradual replacement of Manipuri text books printed in Bengali script with those printed in Meitei Mayek, Meitei Mayek text books should be introduced in BA First Year this academic session .
Although the academic session has already commenced, Meitei Mayek text books for BA Manipuri course are not yet available .
Manipur University is entrusted with the responsibility of preparing BA Manipuri syllabus just as BOSEM and COHSEM are entrusted with the task of preparing syllabi for Manipuri text books up to Class X and Class XII respectively .
But Manipur University has done nothing in this regard and the State Government seems to be totally oblivious of the matter, informed a source .
The State Government's Language Planning and Implementation Director D L Mahabir claimed that the Education Department intimated all authorities concerned to take up necessary measures in time as Meitei Mayek text books would be introduced in BA (Manipuri) course from this academic session .
The department wrote a letter in this regard to the MU Vice Chancellor on October 8, 2016.A similar letter was also written to the Higher Education Commissioner .
The matter was deliberated at a meeting chaired by the Education Minister on October 27, 2016.The meeting was attended by officials of Education (S), Education (U), Language Planning and Implementation Directorate and Manipur University .
The meeting decided that Manipuri text books (Bengali script) studied in BA should be re-written in Meitei Mayek on mission mode .
Accordingly, the Directorate of Language Planning and Implementation transliterated Manipuri text books studied in BA first and second semesters and the same were uploaded in the department's website www.dlpimanipur.gov.in
Even though the Meitei Mayek text books were uploaded on the website, the directorate is not in a position to publish the same in hard copies as it is not the competent authority, Mahabir said.
It is the responsibility of the publisher/author concerned to publish Meitei Mayek text books, he added.