‘JK govt must add mother tongue, third language column in admission forms’

National Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Prof Akhtarul Wasey Thursday asked the state government to include information of child’s mother tongue as well as preferred third language for study in school admission forms in order to promote Urdu and regional languages. “All the affiliated schools of state board should include a column in the application forms for admission as per the recommendations of National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities (NCRLM) on compulsory registration of mother tongue,” Prof Wasey said while addressing a seminar at Central University of Kashmir, here. He…

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