GUWAHATI, Sept 5 - Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated the Directorate for Bodo and Other Ethnic Language Education in a programme held at the Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra here on the occasion of Teachers� Day today. The directorate, specifically created to look after the education-related planning and coordination in Bodo and other ethnic language academic institutions of Assam, is an offshoot of the Bodo Accord.
Synchronising with the celebrations of the Teachers� Day programme, the Chief Minister in the presence of Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, also felicitated the teachers nominated for meritorious services.
The Chief Minister said that teachers are the architects of creating good human resources and therefore, teachers will have to play a crucial role in helping the students in forming their personality traits so that they can bring about positive changes in the society.
Sonowal said through the National Education Policy, 2020 steps have been taken to ensure highest intellectual growth of students as the policy is based on Indian ethos and emphasises educating students in their mother tongue.
The Education Minister, while laying stress on the concept and vision of the New Education Policy 2020, stated that the policy envisages to achieving the target of overall development of the students, besides emphasising on protection and promotion of the mother tongue.
Principal Secretary to Higher Education B Kalyan Chakravarty, Minister of State for Education Bhabesh Kalita, president of Bodo Sahitya Sabha Toren Bodo, president of Nikhil Bodo Students Union Dwipen Bodo, among others, were present in the programme.
