Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra

Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra

Under the program of Strengthening Primary Health & Education with support of Oxfam India, partner organizations like NBJK, SPAR and CINI have organized a media advocacy meeting on 3 March’15 at NBJK coordination office, Hazaribag. This was specially focused upon MLE (Multi Lingual Education) and ECC (Early Childhood Care) in tribal areas where children have no choice for their mother tongue but to start with Hindi or English as the medium of instruction. They find it difficult for conception and face cognitive problem, said Mr. Binod Kr. Horo (Project In-Charge, SPAR) during the meeting participated by 15 journalists from different newspapers & TV channels. He was in favor of multilingual education for pre-school children so that they could be taught in mother tongue to respond their curiosity naturally. Ms. Manisha Jamuar (Advocacy Manager, SPAR) has referred to various studies which suggests for mother tongue in pre-school learning tool. Earlier all media people were greeted by Mr. Prabhu Nath Sharma (Treasurer, NBJK) who introduced about the program being implemented at West Singhbhum, Hazaribag and Gumla districts by partner NGOs of Oxfam India. He said that learning initiated with mother language can reduce drop out rate in tribal areas and adds quality to such crucial phase of learning by child. The meeting was concluded with the idea to continue with advocacy for MLE and follow up to Odisha model that combines Aanganwadi Center with primary schools to support ECC also.