Local dialects and tongues other than standard Nepali, should be banished from the school and playground as early as possible in the life of a child.… The study of a non-Nepali local tongue would mitigate against the effective development of Nepali, for the student would make greater use of it than Nepali, at home and in the community, and thus Nepali would remain a ‘foreign’ language. If the younger generation is taught to use Nepali as the basic language, then other languages will gradually disappear and greater national strength and unity will result.

All the languages spoken as the mother tongue in the various parts of Nepal are the national languages of Nepal (Article 6.2). Each community shall have the right to operate schools up to the primary level in its own mother tongue for imparting education to its children.

Every Nepali community living in Nepal shall have the right to acquire education in its mother tongue up to the secondary level, and the right to open and run schools and educational institutions as provided for by law.