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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that all the eight states of the North East have agreed to make Hindi compulsory in schools up to Class X, a statement issued by the Home ministry stated.
Amit Shah on Thursday said that Hindi will now be made compulsory in all eight northeastern states up to Class 10.
At the 37th meeting of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee in New Delhi, Shah said that “now the time has come to make the official language an important part of the unity of the country.”
The home minister said that Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English, and not to local languages.
“Twenty-two thousand Hindi teachers have been recruited in the eight states of the North East,” Shah said. “Nine tribal communities of the North East have converted their dialects’ scripts to Devanagari.”
