 bill no xii of  2006 the  basic  and  primary  education  (compulsory imparting  in  mother  tongue)  bill,  2006 a billto provide for the compulsory use of mother tongue in imparting basic and primaryeducation to children of tender age by all educational institutions so as to enable them to learn their lessons easily which will help them in properly developing their faculties and for matters connected therewith and incidental theretobe it enacted by parliament in the fifty-seventh year of the republic of india as follows:—1  (1) this act may be called the basic and primary education (compulsory imparting in mother tongue) act, 20065(2) it extends to the whole of indiashort title, extent and commencement(3) it shall come into force with immediate effectdefinitions2 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 other cases, the central government;10(b) "basic education" means education provided in preparatory schools orkindergarden and such other schools by whatever name called;15(c) "educational institution" includes all schools whether run by governmentor government body or private individual, association or trust, whether aided by government or not, recognized or unrecognized, imparting education to the children from beginning of basic education;(d) "mother tongue" means the language generally spoken in the family of thechild 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;5(f) "primary education" includes education up to the level of middle class orstandard103 (1) notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, every educational institution including those established by minorities, religious or linguistic ones, 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 thechild(2) it shall be the duty of the appropriate government to ensure strict compliance of the provisions of sub-section (1) in such manner as may be prescribed15(3) 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(4) 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 act5 the central government shall, after due appropriation made by law by parliamentin this behalf, provide requisite funds to the states for appointing language teachers and 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:provided that no such order shall be made or direction be given after three years of thecommencement of this act35act to have overriding effect7 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 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 forcepower to make rules8 the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rules forcarrying out the purposes of this act statement  of  objects  and  reasonsfor a child the easiest language 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 22 languages have been recognized by our constitution the mother tongue, no doubt, is the best language for a child to develop his faculties but when he or she is admitted in the play school or kindergarden or primary school more so in the socalled elite or public schools, the child 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 a particular language but the education is imparted 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 alphabets because they cannot speak in their language and have to speak only in english in many schools students are penalized if they speak in any other language than english though the child learns english in 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 billsushma  swaraj financial  memorandumclause 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 bill the bill if enacted will involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is estimated that a sum of rupees one thousand crore may involve 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 details onlythe delegation of legislative power is of normal character rajya  sabha———— a billto provide for the compulsory use of mother tongue in imparting basic and primary education to children of tender age by all educational institutions so as to enable them to learn their lessons easily which will help them in properly developing their faculties and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto—————(shrimati sushma swaraj, mp)mgipmrnd—5994rs(s-4)—03-03-2006