The committee said around 25,000 students study Tai Ahom in 3,000 schools in Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar, Jorhat, Dhemaji, Golaghat, karbianglong, Guwahati, Majuli, Lakhimpur and Sonitpur districts.
Although 2500 teachers are required to tutor these students, the state government has appointed only 200 and that too in 1994, it said.
“The state government inked an agreement with our committee in 1993 to appoint 200 teachers for Tai Ahom language within one year and then appoint 100 teachers every year till the requirements are fulfilled. But after appointing 200 teachers in 1994, there have not been any new appointments,” said The All Ahom Language Demand Committee.
Like any language of indigenous community, Tai Ahom is taught in schools as a subject from Class I to Class IV. It is the language in which buranjis (historical chronicles) were written by the Ahoms.
A large number of manuscripts written in Tai Ahom are being preserved in museums. Those working to develop the language rue government apathy towards it.
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