Dhaka, Feb. 22 -- Children of different ethnic minorities in the hill communities received the rights to learn the mother tongue eight years ago, but made no headway due to the lack of proper government initiatives and directives pertaining to implementation.

The initiative has been hampered by a lack of training for teachers, absence of annual evaluation exams, students from different ethnic groups studying in a school, not incorporating into curriculum, no real-life application of the learnings, etc.

Training teachers of these ethnic groups to ensure proper facilitation of the lessons should have been the top priority, but that did not happen in reality.

According to the Khagrachhari Primary Education Office, the district has 595 pri...