In response to protests by tribal student organisations, the Tripura government announced that tribal students can now write their Kokborok language examinations in Roman script alongside Bengali. This decision came after hundreds of TISF activists blockaded road and rail movement in around 50 places across Tripura disrupting the normal movement of train services and transportation of all kind. Though no untoward incident was reported, 22 members of Tipra Students Federation (TSF) were arrested for protesting outside Chief Minister’s Manik Saha’s residence. The TISF activists blockaded the National Highway-8, the life line of Tripura and the lone rail route to protest against the TBSE’s decision not to allow tribal students appearing for Kokborok language to write answers in Roman script.There are thousands of schools in Tripura, both government and privately run, that are either affiliated with the TBSE or the CBSE. Tripura has a 12 lakh tribal population out of its 40 lakh inhabitants, and 70 per cent of the tribals speak the Kokborok language, which was recognised as the second official language by the then CPI-M led Left Front government in 1979.This development comes after a recent directive from the Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) initially allowing both scripts but later reverting to only Bengali script pending a response from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).Head to the link in the description for our previous video to know how the longstanding debate over the use of Bengali and Roman scripts for Kokborok continued for over five decades and follow #NEWay for more news and updates from Northeast India.