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The TBSE chief earlier this January asked all the examination centre in-charges to allow only Bengali script for writing Kokborok papers for the Class 12 and 10 board examinations scheduled to begin from March 1 and 2 due to insufficiently qualified evaluators to check answer copies written in Roman script | Latest News India

In its latest flip-flop, the state board exam body has again ruled out Roman script for answering Kokborok papers, a touchy issue among tribals, who see insistence on Bengali as an imposition

Kokborok, which is the lingua franca of most of Tripura’s 19 tribal communities, is an oral language like most indigenous languages of the region.

On Saturday, TIPRA Motha founder and president Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma attacked Ganchoudhury over the script controversy. He had threatened to retaliate if the TBSE tried to force students to write the Kokborok paper in Bengali script | Latest News India

As per estimates of the Tripura government, 8,14,375 people from Tripura, Reang, Jamatia, Noatia, Kalai, Rupini, Murasing and Uchoi communities speak Kokborok in Tripura.

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​​The 79-year-old poet was speaking at a session titled Hindi & Urdu: Siamese Twins, held on Thursday evening at the India International Centre here.

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Several people were detained in Dhalai and West Tripura districts during the 12-hour shutdown in Tripura on Monday demanding introduction of Roman script for the tribal Kokborok language and passage of the 125th Constitutional Amendment Bill. Around 300 people were detained, Twipra Students Federation (TSF) held a 12-hour shutdown in Tripura. TSF activities demonstrated in more than six places in support of their demands.

Holding placards and banners and chanting slogans in support of their demand, the agitators said that the Kokborok script issue has been pending for over five decades and accused the previous and...