Lok Sabha Question No. 3919 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-08-18
Subject: FLN based Teaching in Tribal Dominated Schools
Ministry: EDUCATION
Asked by: Shri Ganesh Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-3919 ANSWERED ON 18-08-2025

## FLN based Teaching in Tribal Dominated Schools

†3919. Shri Ganesh Singh:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government is aware that Satna district of Madhya Pradesh is inhabited by unique tribes such as Gond, Bhil, Korku, Baiga, Kol, Saharia and Mawasi, many of whom depend on forest-based lifestyle and have limited educational resources;

(b) whether any special schemes/interventions are being implemented by the Government in Satna district to ensure  access to mother-tongue based Teaching Learning Material (TLM), multilingual classes, local teacher training and geographical access to schools for students of these tribal communities; and

(c) whether the Government is contemplating any scheme for FLN (Foundational Literacy and Numeracy) based teaching in local dialector innovations in tribal dominated schools for unique socio-linguistic groups such as Mawasi tribe in Satna district?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (SHRI JAYANT CHAUDHARY )

(a) to (c): Education is in the concurrent list of the Constitution and majority of schools are  under  the  administrative  control  of  respective  State/UTs  Governments.  As  per  the information  received  from  State  of  Madhya  Pradesh  (MP),  Kol,  Gond  and  Mawasi  tribes inhabit in Satna District and have necessary educational resources i.e AsharamShalas, Hostels, Kanya Shiksha Parisar, Eklavya Vidyalay and other Schools.

The Department of School Education & Literacy (DoSE&L), Ministry of Education has launched  a  National  Mission  called  'National  Initiative  for  Proficiency  in  Reading  with

Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN Bharat)' on 5th July, 2021 for ensuring that every child in  the  country(including  all  district  of  MP)  necessarily  attains  foundational  literacy  and numeracy by the end of Grade 2. This Mission has been set up under the aegis of the centrally sponsored scheme of Samagra Shiksha- an integrated scheme for School Education. Under Samagra Shiksha scheme, education is imparted with equitable access to the highest-quality education for all learners regardless of social or economic background .

Education in the mother tongues of learners during the formative years is one major goal of the NEP 2020 and the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE) 2023.  The  Ministry  of  Education  (MoE)  through  NCERT  and  Central  Institute  of  Indian Languages  (CIIL),  Mysuru  along  with  the  Tribal  Institutes  has  developed  Primers,  in  117 languages listed in the Census of India. The Primers are available at https://ncert.nic.in/primers.php.  These  are  languages  spoken  by  at  least  10000 population. These primers are designed to support multilingualism and utilize children's mother tongue as a medium of instruction, aligning with the NEP-2020. For Madhya Pradesh, there are Primers in 02 local languages i.e. Korku and Bhili(Vasava).

******