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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.