over 25 social groups including apex literary body asam sahitya sabha and influential students union aasu on wednesday announced that they will launch a series of agitation against a host of decisions taken by the state government regarding education sectorafter a meeting with more than 20 indigenous groups apex literary body asam sahitya sabha all assam students union aasu bodo sahitya sabha bss and all bodo students union absu warned the government to stay away from medium of the schoolsin a joint statement the four groups said that they discussed a range of issues like stopping of provincialisation teaching mathematics and science in english language from class 3 dual mode of teaching and setting up of one english medium cbse school in each constituencythey also discussed the problems faced by vernacular medium schools like inadequate infrastructure lack of teachers and closing down of schools in the name of amalgamationthe groups strongly opposed all these decisions approved by the assam cabinet these are illogical unscientific and shortsighted these decisions will push the mother tongues into death bed and kill the vernacular medium schools they addedthe groups will not accept the decisions of the assam government and these were all against the national education policy the statement claimedthe assam government has to leave its adamant nature we request the government to reconsider all these decisions as soon as possible it addedin the meeting a resolution was passed to adopt agitational programmes against the decisions and the four convenor groups will announce them after the coming durga puja festivalthe groups also decided to organise an educational convention where eminent personalities will be invited to deliberate on the issuesearlier during the day nine opposition political parties the congress cpim cpi cpiml assam jatiya parishad jatiya dalasom raijor dal ncp and the rjd announced a sitin on september 28 in guwahati to protest against various state government decisions related to the education departmentslamming the assam government over the decisions the parties alleged that the bjpled alliance is trying to privatise schoolsthe assam cabinet on july 28 had decided that from the academic year 2023 mathematics and science will be taught in english from class3 onwards in all government and provincialised assamese and other vernacular medium schoolsit had also approved the introduction of a dual medium of instruction from classes 6 to 12 in assamese and vernacular medium schools under the state governmentthese led to a huge controversy with all opposition political parties major student organisations including the abvp apex literary bodies and many social groups protesting against the decisionsin august the education department had amalgamated 1710 schools with other nearby institutes across the statealthough the opposition termed this exercise as closing down of the schools the government said these were merged with others for better infrastructure management and to improve teacherstudent ratio