 bill no 77 of  2009 the basic and primary education (compulsory teaching in mother tongue) bill, 2009 byshri om prakash yadav, mp a billto provide for the compulsory use of mother tongue in imparting basic and primary education to children in all educational institutions and for matters connected therewith and incidental theretobe it enacted by parliament in the sixtieth year of the republic of india as follows:—short title and extent1 (1) this act may be called the basic and primary education (compulsory teaching in mother tongue)  act, 2009(2) it extends to the whole of indiadefinitions52 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—(a) "appropriate government" means in the case of a state, the government ofthat state and in other cases, the central government;(b) "basic education" means education provided in preparatory schools or kindergarten and such other schools by whatever name called;(c) "educational institution" includes all schools whether run by government or government bodies or private institutions, association or trust, whether aided by government or not, recognized or unrecognized, imparting education to the children from primary level;5(d) "mother tongue" means the language generally spoken in the family of the child who learns it from his mother and other family members and which is one of the languages mentioned in the eighth schedule to the constitution of india;(e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this act; and10(f) "primary education" includes education up to the level of middle class or eighth standard3 (1) notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, every educational institution shall impart basic and primary education to the children in their mother tongue or dialect generally spoken in the region or state, as the case may be, where such an institution is located, in addition to hindi or english language, as the case may be, so as to properly develop the faculties of the children15compulsoryimparting ofbasic and primary education in mother tongue of the child(2) for the purposes of sub-section (1) the appropriate government shall appoint language teachers in all government run or aided schools and shall provide requisite infrastructure for that purpose20(3) the appropriate government shall derecognize the educational institutions not complying with the provisions of this act for such period as it may deem necessary and impose such other sanctions as may be prescribed after giving such institutions a reasonable opportunity to defend their casespower to exempt254 the appropriate government may either retrospectively from the enactment of thisact or prospectively exempt from the operation of the provisions of this act, the members of any race, sect or tribe to which it may consider it impossible or inexpedient to apply the provisions of this act 5 the central government shall, after due appropriation made by law by parliament in this behalf, provide requisite funds to the states for appointing language teachers and for providing other infrastructure required for the purposes of this actcentral government to provide funds30power to remove difficulty6 if any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this act, the centralgovernment may make such order or give such direction, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, as appears to it to be necessary or expedient for the removal of the difficulty:35provided that no such order shall be made or direction be given after three years of the commencement of this actact to have overriding effect7 the provisions of this act and the rules made thereunder shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force but save as aforesaid the provisions of this act shall be made in addition to and not in derogation of any other law for the time being in force40power to make rules8 (1) the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rulesfor carrying out the purposes of this act45(2) every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made,before each house of parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both the houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule statement  of  objects  and  reasonsfor a child, the easiest language to acquire knowledge and understanding of worldly affairs is his mother tongue he learns to speak his mother tongue from his mother and family members, who generally speak the language spoken from generations or the dialect of their forefathers or of the area or region in which they reside in major parts of our country, hindi is the main language with different dialects at different places but it is written in devanagari script and can be understood easily  then, there are regional languages a total of twenty-two languages have been recognized by our constitution the mother tongue, no doubt, is the most appropriate language for a child to develop his faculties however, when a child is admitted in the play school or kindergarten or primary school, more so in the so called elite or public schools, he has to switch over to english medium, which is the medium of instruction in such schools at this stage the real difficulty of the child begins he speaks and understands a particular language, ie, his mother tongue, but the education is imparted to him in a different language this causes strain and in order to become a part of the system he starts ignoring his own mother tongue in the hindi speaking areas, students of public schools cannot count in hindi and do not recognize hindi alphabet because in their school they cannot speak in their language and have to speak only in english in many schools, students are penalized if they speak in any language other than english though the child learns english by compulsion but he is not at ease with this language and on the other hand he does not develop sufficient knowledge of his own language it is, therefore, necessary that a child should be imparted basic and primary education in his mother tongue, which is the easiest language for him thereafter, the child grows up and he can acquire the skills in other languages and opt for the language of his choice for his further studieshence this billnew delhi;om  prakash  yadavjuly 10, 2009 financial  memorandumclause 3 of the bill provides that the appropriate government shall appoint language teachers and provide requisite infrastructure for it the expenditure in respect of schools in union territories and those funded or aided by the central government shall be borne out of the consolidated fund of india clause 5 of the bill makes it obligatory for the central government to provide requisite funds to the states for carrying out the purposes of this billthe bill, therefore, if enacted, will involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is estimated that a sum of rupees one thousand crore may be involved as recurring expenditure per annumno non-recurring expenditure is likely to be involved memorandum  regarding  delegated  legislationclause 8 of the bill gives power to the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of this bill the rules will relate to matters of detail only the delegation of legislative power is of a normal character————— abillto provide for the compulsory use of mother tongue in imparting basic and primary education to children in all educational institutions and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto—————(shri om prakash yadav, mp)