The strides, the people of ‘God’s Own Country’ made in terms of literacy is something non-Malayalees deeply envy in India. Setting up of Techno Parks, the Smart City and the IT@school Project speak volumes about the pulsating vision of the enterprising Malayalee!
As a teacher of English, I have been exploring the possibility of making use of knowledge acquisition through the Internet an opportunity for learning English -a language that has a vibrancy in a Postmodern world. It was then that I came across a news item in a local daily in May 2009 which published the decision of the Education Department to prepare all the software for the IT@school Project in Malayalam to reduce the excessive and unwarranted use of English by school children at the expense of their own mother tongue!
Looking at the decision from a global perspective for the children in God’s Own Country, I am afraid, it appears to be an attempt to take three steps backwards after the one step taken forward for setting up Technoparks and the Smart city!
I hope dear readers, you too agree with me.
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