December 27
Firdous Qadri
Scores of people on Thursday holding banners and placards staged a protest at press colony and sought administration’s intervention in preserving the mother tongue.
Holding banners that read “Kashrin henz pehchan, kashir zaban kashir zaban” and “save Mother tongue of Kashmir” these protesters gathered under the banner of Kashmiri Language Union (KLU) in Srinagar.
The protesting people have appealed the administration including Director of School Education Ghulam Nabi Itoo to implement the order Via 333 edu of 2017 which states that mother tongue of Jammu Kashmir (Kashmiri, Dogri and Bhudhi) should be made compulsory till higher secondary level throughout the state including Chenab valley.
We have met concerned authorities but they have taken no initiatives for the language as of now, a protester told The Kashmiriyat.
At last, The protesters threatened that if the demands are not fulfilled they all will go for the hunger strike.