There seems to be a huge opportunity for edtech and other educational institution and platforms in Odisha as the central government focuses on the teaching students with help of pictures, stories and songs based on their local nature and culture with the launch of Kuwi and Desia books at Bhubaneswar.
Union Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman launched these books in collaborative efforts with Central University of Odisha, Koraput, Department of Posts, and NCERT.
With the launch of this, there is huge potential in the market of the Odisha for the educational institutes who can tap the market and spread their tentacles in the field of studies through culture and tradition of the state.
As of now, the edtech firms and other educational institution have clinched every field where they can impart knowledge including healthcare sector, engineering sector, and other professional course they offer for wider profits. However, now they have new market to tap.
While addressing the gathering at the launch ceremony, Pradhan mentioned that there are over 62 tribes covering 23 per cent of total population of Odisha, so, it becomes necessary to teach students with help of pictures, stories and songs based on their local nature and culture to improve their speaking skill, learning outcome and cognitive development.
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in collaboration with Central University of Odisha has prepared two invaluable books: the "Kuwi Primer" and "Desia Primer", for those children, who are speaking Kuwi and Desia tribal languages in the undivided Koraput district of Odisha, he said.
Speaking on the occasion Nirmala Sitharaman said that the National Education Policy 2020 is a very progressive policy. It is a result of different people putting their minds together and extensive consultations. NEP is a flexible policy. It is not something that the centre decides and imposes on all the states.
She further said that when one learns, speaks and thinks in one's mother tongue, there's a clarity of thought which can be used later. That's why learning in the mother tongue is important.
