MALAYALAM COMPULSORY UP TO CLASS TEN ( x )

          The Assembly committee on official Language has directed the state government to take steps to make Malayalam a compulsory subject up to class ten (X) irrespective of the medium of instruction. The committee, in its fourth and fifth reports tabled in the House on Wednesday, also wanted the government to take urgent steps to ensure that Malayalam is made a compulsory subject in Schools offering CBSE and ICICE streams. In order to implement this in the coming academic year, it directed the government to prepare and distribute the necessary text books on time.
    the fourth report of the committee primary deals with the implementation of Malayalam as the official language in the Education
Department, while the fifth report related to the progress of its implementation in the environment, Forest and Tourism Departments.
    The committee in making ,while accepting the difficulties in making Malayalam compulsory in collegiate education, suggested an integrated approach which would ensure adequate prominence to Malayalam. In the field of legal education, the committee referred to the recommendations of the Narendaran Committee and suggested making Malayalam the medium of instruction in Law Colleges. The  progress of implementing Malayalam as the official language was just 50 percent in General Education Department.
   The Committee emphasized on the need to translate the various environment- related laws which were mostly in English. It wanted the Environment Department and the official language department to jointly publish a glossary which would help the common man to understand legal terminologies used in the legislation's

Prof.John Kurakar