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Chandigarh : Lamenting at the anti-Punjabi approach of Centre, Punjabi Cultural Council has urged the union government to reconsider the holding of NEET examination policy of vernacular languages and include Punjabi in it as this historic language was not incorporated the list given to Supreme Court. The Council also pleaded with the Punjab government to file a review petition in the court for the sake of Punjabi students, who have studied the state board syllabus for the entire year, so as they could complete in their mother tongue also.
Expressing unhappiness over the disregard to state language Punjabi, president Punjabi Cultural Council Harjeet Singh Grewal and finance secretary Baljit Singh Saini in a letter to union health and family welfare minister JP Nadda demanded that the ministry should also include Punjabi as a language for conducting the all India medical entrance test as it is not currently in the list of six regional languages given to the Supreme Court.
Urging the union government to take necessary steps to address the issue, they said how students from remote areas, who have been preparing for the exam in regional languages for years, could be asked to appear for the common test now. “Let us stand by students. We cannot let them suffer,” council said, adding legislative and administrative measures should be initiated to support the students of Punjab whose syllabus and pattern both are quite different from the state-level PMET.
The Council leaders Grewal and Saini strongly pleaded with the Punjab government to immediately intervene into the matter by filing review petition in the SC to hold the common entrance test NEET-II be also conducted in Punjabi language similar to Maharashtra government petition to make NEET available in Marathi language.
The council also mocked at the Central Board of Secondary Education which had expressed the apprehension that getting the question paper translated into regional languages could result in its leakage. Taking a swipe at the central board the council alleged that CBSE had always ill-treated with regional languages while publication of languages books, questions papers and drafting of its syllabi.
The council further stated that Punjabi is common not only in Punjab but also being taught in other states of the country, adding they said the Punjabi community would never tolerate this unilateral decision to ill-treat their mother tongue. They emphasized that developed countries have showcased their progress only by keeping connect with their mother tongue and culture but on the other side, arbitrary decision of union government would result in young ones of India losing emotional chords with their mother tongue.
