TWO local Hindu institutions say they will oppose Government’s plan to teach conversational Fiji-Hindi in all primary schools in the country.
National Secretary of the Santan Dharm Sabha Fiji, Pundit Vigyan Sharma said all schools run by their organization would not follow the directive and teach Fiji-Hindi.
“They want to teach Fiji-Hindi in schools now when most of the schools are run by our organization,” he said
. “We are going to say now that no Fiji-Hindi will be taught in our schools. “If these people do not want to listen to us we will not listen to them.” Pundit Sharma said members were opposed to the teaching of Fiji-Hindi because it was a ‘broken’ language. “We only speak Fiji Hindi when we talanoa in our homes but during special functions and rituals we speak pure Hindi (shuddh) only.”
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