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Says students should be given right to choose
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<p>Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman
on Tuesday said that the three-language policy should be implemented in
order to give the students more choice.</p><p>Even as she praised the
qualities of Sanskrit at The Madras Sanskrit College, Ms. Sitharaman
said that students should be given the right to choose. “I am not
talking about denigrating a language. I am only reminding us to
implement an already-existing policy...This is not only about Tamil
Nadu; I am not even talking about the New Education Policy,” she said.</p><p>The
Minister was interacting with journalists after launching the Digital
Campus of the college at its Mylapore campus. The college has moved to
make its resources available online at
<a href="http://digital.madrassanskritcollege.edu.in">digital.madrassanskritcollege.edu.in</a>. A beginners’ couse, with 30
lessons spanning a 16-week period, is now available online. S.
Ramadorai, Chairman of the Governing Board of TISS, was also present at
the event.</p><div id="gmail-inarticle_wrapper_div"><div id="gmail-inread1_26817" style="display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;clear:both"><div id="gmail-inread_26817" style="height:1px;overflow:hidden" class="gmail-mainAdView"><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr id="gmail-zd_tr_26817"><td id="gmail-zd_td_26817" style="opacity:0"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p>“I
think the efforts of this institution in asking the CBSE to follow the
three-language-formula are not to push only Sanskrit, but to follow the
three-language-formula, give options to the students,” Ms. Sitharaman
said in her address.</p><p>She said that Sanskrit should be one of the
choices, saying she will work towards the implementation of the policy.
“I will fully be in support of it. I will definitely meet Prakash
Javadekar to tell him that there is a need to be truthful to what was
given to us,” she said.</p><p class="gmail-_hoverrDone">Mr. Sitharaman said
that she had learnt Sanskrit herself at Tiruchy’s Seethalakshmi
Ramaswami College, which helped her cognitive abilities.</p><p class="gmail-_hoverrDone"><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/sitharaman-in-favour-of-threelanguage-policy/article17425263.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/sitharaman-in-favour-of-threelanguage-policy/article17425263.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/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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