Language Barrier in Getting Quality Education and Employment for CHT Indigenous People in Bangladesh

Language is considered to be an important medium of communication which helps to connect people and bring them close to one another. Every year a huge number of indigenous people living in Bangladesh who face serious discrimination in getting quality education and employment due to language-based learning difficulty. The objective of the study was to identify how language problem is creating employment disparity between mainstream Bengali people and minority indigenous people. It also sought to find a solution of the issue and reduce discrimination for indigenous people. The research basically was conducted based on secondary literature support. The main reason behind the low literacy is that most of them have to study in Bengali medium rather than their mother tongue. Besides, the schools lack sufficient infrastructure and adequate teachers. It also increases the tendency of high drop out. Moreover, low literacy rate deprived them to enter into a better employment sector. It is suggested that the basic education should be in their mother tongue and quality teachers should be recruited in local level schools.