 bill no 98 of  2016 the basic and primary education (compulsory teaching in mother tongue) bill, 2016 by shri at nana patil, 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 thereto be it enacted by parliament in the sixty-seventh 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, 20165(2) it extends to the whole of indiadefinitions2 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—(a) "appropriate government" means in the case of a state, the government of that state and in all other cases, the central government;(b) "basic education" means education provided in preparatory schools or kindergarten schools or such other schools, by whatever name called;10(c) "educational institution" includes a school which is run by government or by any other authority designated by it or by a private institution, association or trust, whether aided by government or not, recognized or unrecognized, imparting education to the children from primary level;(d) "mother tongue" means the language generally spoken in the family of a 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;(e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this act; and5(f) "primary education" means education up to the level of middle class or eighth standard103 (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 childrencompulsory imparting of basic 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 provide requisite infrastructure for that purpose15(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 cases204 the central government shall, after due appropriation made by parliament by law 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 funds255 notwithstanding anything contained in this act, the provisions of this act shall apply to minority institutions only if the management of such institutions convey to the appropriate government their willingness for imparting basic and primary education to the children in their mother tongue in their school curriculumact to apply to minority educational institutions in certain situations power to remove difficulty6 if any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this act, the central government 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 diffulty:30privided that no such order shall be made or direction be given after three years of the commencement of this actact to have overriding effect 7 (1) the provisions of this act and the rules made thereunder shall have effectnotwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force35(2) the provisions of this act shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any otherlaw for the time being in forcepower to make rules8 (1) the appropriate government may, by notification in the official gazette, makerules for carrying out the purposes of this act40 45(2) every rule made under this act by the central government 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 two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, parliament agrees in making any modification in the rule or agrees 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 language other than english though the child learns english under 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 can acquire the skills in other languages and opt for the language of his choice for his further studieshence this billnew delhi;at nana patilmarch 3, 2016 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 4 provides that the central government shall provide requisite funds to the states for carrying out the purposes of this bill this bill, therefore, if enacted, will involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is estimated that a sum of rupees one thousand crore per annum will be involved as recurring expenditureno 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 as the rules will relate to matters of detail only, the delegation of legislative power is of a normal character———— 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 thereto————(shri a t nana patil, mp)gmgipmrnd—5316ls(s3)—25-04-2016