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Despite the many positive initiatives being undertaken by the Modi
government, calculated attempts are being made through some power
centres close to the government to impose Sanskrit in the curriculum (“<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/german-row-parents-move-court/article6622544.ece" target="_blank">German row: parents move court</a>,”
Nov.22). The argument of the Ministry of Human Resource Development
that German is a foreign language and Sanskrit is one of the 22
scheduled languages of India may or may not be right. But the hurried
decision towards the close of the academic year to replace German
without considering the adverse academic and psychological impact it can
have on over 70,000 students and their parents is unjustified. In a
true democracy, students should have the freedom to choose the
language(s) of their interest, and the government should facilitate that
freedom. </p>
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R.K. Jacob, </p>
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Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu <br></p><p class="">More comments at <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/letters/no-place-for-german/article6627581.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/letters/no-place-for-german/article6627581.ece</a><br></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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