Call for inclusion of NE studies in all school curricula

The North East Students Organisation (NESO) has demanded that details of the eight States of the region should be included in the school curricula of all State and Central boards to check racial discrimination against the people of the region. “We insist that the Centre take steps to include the North East — its geographical location, its people, its culture, its ethos etc — in the curricula of schools of all state and central boards to address discrimination of its (North East) people to some extent,” NESO president Samuel B Jyrwa has said. Jyrwa, who led a delegation of student leaders of the eight North East States, met Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in New Delhi and handed over to him a petition also demanding a stringent law to end racial discrimination.NESO said that the discrimination stemmed from the fact that North East, despite being part and parcel of the country, did not reflect in the school curricula in the whole country. “Nothing of the North East is even mentioned in the national anthem. Our petition, if agreed to, would go a long way towards improving national integration,” Jyrwa said.-