Mangsebung Rural Municipality has already implemented 'Local Curriculum' and 'Limbu Language Curriculum' at the basic level.
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Mangsebung rural municipality is also going to implement 'Vantwa language course'. For that purpose, Mangsebung has formed a working group to create a 'Vantwa language course' and started the work, said Hemant Rai, chairman of the rural municipality.
The rural municipality has implemented 'local curriculum' and 'Limbu language curriculum' at the basic level. "After discussion and consultation with the stakeholders, we have started the construction of Vantwa language curriculum to be taught in the areas where there are majority of Vantwa speakers," said Village Chairman Rai, "The work has been progressed by forming a working group for curriculum development." The
working group consists of teachers Uday Rai, Sakuntala Rai, Ambika Prasad Rai, former teacher Gunjkumar Rai and education officer (6th) Yuvraj Khanal under the coordination of Jeevanjyoti Mavi principal Madan Kumar Rai. Kirat Rai Yayokhkha Central Deputy General Secretary Krishna Kumar Rai responded that the creation of Vantava language curriculum is a good news for Vantava speakers as a whole.
'We have taken positively the work started by Mangsebung rural municipality on the use of the right of mother tongue education provided by the constitution,' he said, 'There will be positive support from our organization to implement it.'
Part 3, Article 31 of the Constitution of Nepal, under the right to education, Article 5 provides that each community has the right to open and operate schools and educational institutions in their mother tongue. According to the same arrangement, Mangsebung is working on creating a Vantwa language curriculum for mother tongue education.
Previously, Mangsebung rural municipality has been teaching local curriculum 'Our Mangsebung' up to the basic level (grades 1-8) as an optional subject in community and institutional schools. Similarly, up to the basic level (grades 1-5) Limbu language curriculum has been created and taught in four schools.
Mangsebung said that Pavitra Basic School located in Ward No. 3, Saraswati Secondary School located in Ward No. 5, Samjik Mundhum Basic School and Samjik Mundhum Pathshala have been teaching Limbu language curriculum in Mangsebung, where there is a majority of Limbu caste.
Mangsebung has three secondary schools (grades 1-12), seven secondary schools (grades 1-10), 16 basic schools (grades 1-8) and There are four primary schools (grades 1-5). On the institutional side, there are two schools of secondary school classes (1-10) and two schools of basic school (class 1-8).
According to the statistics of National Census 2078, Mangsebung has a population of 16 thousand 810 and 42.83 percent of Limbu and 33.6 percent of Rai caste live there. On the basis of ethnic and linguistic majority, Mangsebung, which has previously implemented the Limbu language curriculum, is preparing to implement the Wantawa language curriculum this time. Mangsebung has been implementing the Limbu language as the working language since 2075 in Ward No. 5 where there is a majority of the Limbu caste.
