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nglish continues to be the to enable the children to get better edu- the students will be able to learn at least
bane of education in govern- cated, she said. 1000 sentences by the time he gradu-
ment schools of Haryana. The Haryana government will move ates to the primary level.
English, incidentally, is the in a very systematic way to train the Accordingly, there will be one Jun-
E most problematic subject for students. To improve their hold on the ior Basic Teacher (JBT) and one Block
students in government schools. It is English language, the students of gov- Resource Person (BRP) per block who
shocking indeed that almost one lakh ernment schools will be required to have been trained for the purpose who
students from Humanities stream learn at least one sentence every day. will make the students learn the sen-
appear for Class XII board exams in the In a month, they will be made to learn tences per day.
state every year, but on an average, only 20 sentences. This will continue for at According to Dheera Khandelwal, as
around 50 per cent of them pass the least 10 months every year in a class. So many as six language labs have already
examination.
Data collected from government
schools all over the state reveal the English is the new
fact that a maximum number of com-
partments are in English. Now to deal
with the vexed issue, the Haryana gov- mantra of education
ernment has launched a unique ‘I am
not afraid of English’ campaign in the
state. The idea is to make the base of
the students studying in government in Haryana
schools strong in English. This will also
help them in preparing for competitive
exams in future. government schools
According to Haryana Education
Minister Ram Bilas Sharma, the state
is now trying to promote English right English language was a nightmare for vernacular medium
from Class one in Haryana’s primary
schools. Incidentally, the government’s government schools, but now, Haryana has woken up to
move will strive for capacity building of rectify the problem, writes rajendra khatry
the teachers so that they will be able to
impart a proper education. The idea is
to enable the primary students to learn
the language properly. Students should
be able to read, write and also speak
English properly.
Additional Chief Secretary of Har-
yana School Education, Dheera Khan-
delwal said the state is serious about
providing better English education to
students and in this process has be-
gun to take right steps. Slowly Haryana
education department will introduce
English as a medium of teaching from
class in the government schools.
According to Dheera Khandelwal, a
booklet containing around 1000 sen-
tences/phrases has been prepared by
the Haryana State Education Depart-
ment. The booklet also contains around
200 sentences per grade for all the five
grades at the primary level of schooling

• Class apart The state is now trying to
promote English right from Class I