Home/jalpaiguriSearch ResultsA teacher’s crusade to make sign language the 23rd official language of IndiaBy Anuradha SharmaIn West Bengal’s tea belt, a hearing impaired teacher is leading a silent crusade. Loknath Chhetri is creating opportunities for speech and hearing impaired children in remote villages at the Niswarth School for Deaf and Mute, the first English-medium school for the deaf in the Dooars region of North Bengal. In West Bengal’s tea belt, a hearing impaired teacher is leading a silent crusade. Loknath Chhetri is creating opportunities for speech and hearing impaired children in remote villages at the Niswarth School for Deaf and Mute, the first English-medium school for the deaf in the Dooars region of North Bengal.