While recalling historical event of consigning to flames books written in indigenous Meetei script and replacing by Bengali script, the PREPAK statement said that learning English and Bengali script were given more emphasis than Meetei script even during the British protectorate period and the indigenous script that existed since time immemorial in the Kanglei society was almost on the verge of extinction at one point of time Source Chronicle News Service
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