Japanese language

India will meet its target of 30,000 Japanese language students by 2010, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Chairman Ashok Ganguly said.While addressing the second All India conference on promotion of Japanese language education here Mr Ganguly said, ''We are introducing Japanese language as an optional foreign language in secondary school curriculum. Out of 9,000 schools, 90 of them have implemented Japanese as an optional subject. Twenty schools implemented it last fiscal and 30 are likely to add it this financial year.'' The major hurdle being faced in is non-availability of teachers, Mr Ganguly said adding that there should be a paradigm shift in the style of teaching.In the provisional results of the 2006 survey, it was discovered that there were 1,041 learners in primary and secondary-level school education, 1,444 in formal higher education, and 8,526 in educational institutions outside the formal education system.