The State Government is conducting an education scheme through the medium of tribal dialects for encouraging and spreading primary education in the extremely backward tribal areas of the state.

This scheme is being executed in the selected development blocks in Jhabua, Khandwa, Burhanpur and Mandla districts. Under this scheme, five development blocks have been selected in Jhabua, Khandwa, Burhanpur and Mandla districts in the state for the purpose.

The selected blocks are Jhabua and Rama in Jhabua district, Khalwa in Khandwa district, Khaknar in Burhanpur district and in all of the 462 primary schools, and the students of classes first, second and third in the ashrams in Ghughari development block in Mandla district will be taught through the medium of tribal dialects - Bhili, Korku and Gondi to enable them to march forward on the path of progress. Besides, they will be made fully educated by connecting them in the main stream of education by making them well versed in Hindi.

This scheme is being implemented in those areas where 80 percent of children speak local dialects as their mother tongue by considering their eligibility.

For beneficiary selection process, all the children of class first to third of the concerning areas who do not know Hindi, can get primary education through the medium of their mother tongue by taking admission in the concerning schools.

It may be mentioned here that teachers of the primary schools and ashrams in the concerning districts are trained to teach the students in their local tribal dialects. In this connection, cooperation of experts of the concerning areas and the teachers and lecturers of Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Agra, is sought. The assistant commissioner of the area has been asked to supervise and control the execution of the scheme.

The assistant commissioner of the concerning district can be contacted to seek further information of the scheme being implemented.