Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has asked the state government to inform it within two weeks whether six regional languages are taught as compulsory or an optional subject in schools.
In this regard, a division bench of Chief Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev Kumar directed the authorities to file an affidavit, “indicating clearly as to whether the six regional (mother) languages, i.e., Kashmiri, Dogri, Punjabi, Gojri, Pahadi and Bodhi are being taught as compulsory subjects in schools or whether they are taught as an optional third subject and in which classes.”
The court said that the affidavit shall clearly indicate the position as obtaining in the Jammu as also in the Kashmir Province.
Hearing a PIL filed by one Abhinav Sharma, the court directed that the affidavit shall be filed within two weeks.
