AGARTALA, January 6 (TIWN): With another wing to the state literature and to facilitate the tribal wings of the state, the Kokborok library to be opened at Longthorai Valley on January 12. ADC Chief Executive Member Ranjit Debbarma will inaugurate the library at 11:00AM on the very day.

However during the inauguration programme on January 12, ADC Forest & Animal Resource Husbandry Chief Executive member Gajendra Tripura along with other officials will remain present.

It is mentionable here that Tripura’s Kokborok language is rapidly gaining ground as a medium of indigenous literature, despite the invasion of English as the medium of instruction.

A major milestone in the development and in publication of books in Kokborok language was achieved yesterday as the autonomous district council’s chief executive me-mber Ranjit Debbarma unve-iled a major research work on the growth and development of the indigenous language.

However, despite the growth in publication of books in Kokborok, the study of the language as medium of instruction in schools continues to suffer.
There are only 317 schools in ADC areas out of a total of more than 5,000 schools in the state imparting education in Kokborok but the problem is that once the students reach Class VI they have to switch over to Bengali and it creates lot of problems. 

It is also mentionable here that recently the ICFAI university here in the state has decided to start a certificate course on Kokborok.