Call for pry edn in mother tongue for ethnic minorities

 07 February, 2009

Speakers at a meeting demanded that ethnic minority people should be provided primary education in their mother tongue and there should be quota for them in education and job. They also demanded a constitutional recognition of the ethnic minority people.

The demand was made at a meeting on ‘Amra Matribhashay Parte Chai’ (We want to study in our mother tongue) on Saturday. Jatiya Adivasi Parishad organised the programme at the Rajshahi Shilpakala Academy. Litterateur Hasan Azizul Haque said the ethnic minority people were the citizens of the country who are deprived of most of the citizen’s rights. He said they had right to education in their mother tongue. He urged the government to take steps so that ethnic minority people could get all the facilities a Bangladesh citizen is entitled to. The Rajshahi mayor, AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, was chief guest of the programme. City Awami League leader Shafiqur Rahman Badsha chaired the meeting.

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