CM assures protection of Bhojpuri/Maghi students' interest

Bowing to pressure from both the ruling and opposition MLAs in the Jharkhand Assembly which saw noisy scenes over languages today, the government said it would look into the issue of whether the rights of students writing in Bhojpuri and Maghi languages in teachers eligibility Test could be protected.
Replying to the House after three adjournments in the morning, Chief Minister Hemant Soren told the House in the afternoon that his government would look into the issue with sensitivity.
Earlier, ruling Congress MLA K N Tripathi pressed a call attention motion wanting to know about the uncertain future of 12,000 candidates appearing in TET in the two languages.

They brandished the newspaper report publishing HRD Minister Geetashree Oraon's alleged direction to bar the two languages from TET.
The minister had on December 17 informed the House that both Bhojpuri and Maghi were not in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution when BJP MLA and ex-Speaker C P Singh raised the issue then too.