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<h1 class="gmail-article-heading">Ensure Tamil is taught in CBSE, ICSE schools in Tamil Nadu, DMK urges AIADMK govt</h1>
<p class="gmail-head-para">DMK working president M K Stalin on
Friday urged the state government to ensure that Tamil is taught in CBSE
and ICSE schools in Tamil Nadu even as he maintained that BJP-led
Centre was imposing Hindi.
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<p>Chennai:
DMK working president M K Stalin on Friday urged the state government
to ensure that Tamil is taught in CBSE and ICSE schools in Tamil Nadu
even as he maintained that BJP-led Centre was imposing Hindi.</p>
<p>Reiterating the charge that the centre was imposing Hindi, he said,
hence it becomes "imperative," for the AIADMK regime to ensure
compulsory teaching of Tamil in schools.</p>
<p>"The lax attitude of the AIADMK regime in this issue makes one wonder
if they are acting in cahoots with the BJP government in the centre,"
he said.</p>
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</div></div><p>He accused the government
of "half-hearted implementation" of the Tamil Learning Act which was
enacted during his party's previous regime in 2006.</p>
<p>The Act made it compulsory for students from first to tenth standards to learn Tamil as a subject in schools.</p>
<p>He dubbed an order issued in 2014 by the AIADMK government to
compulsorily teach Tamil in CBSE schools as "namesake," and alleged that
it was "inadequately implemented."</p>
<p>He also alleged that the AIADMK government was acting slow on issues
like appointment of teachers, and ensuring adequate infrastructure.</p>
<p>He said such sluggish attitude in turn was "enabling students whose
mother tongue is not Tamil to gain exemption from court of law," from
sitting for Tamil exam.</p>
<p>Stalin requested the government to move ahead to implement compulsory
Tamil language instruction in CBSE and ICSE schools from first to tenth
standards using the provisions of Tamil Learning Act, 2006.</p>
<p>The DMK leader, who is also the Leader of Opposition in Assembly,
said the government should hasten the appointment of Tamil teachers in
government schools and ensure that Tamil Learning Act was implemented in
"full force" as soon as possible.</p>
<p>The state government should take initiative in ensuring that the
younger generation was made aware of the rich cultural legacy of Tamil
language, he said.</p>
<p>In 1968, during the first DMK regime led by former chief minister C N
Annadurai three-language policy of Tamil, English and Hindi was dumped
in favour of a "two-language policy," of Tamil and English. </p><p><a href="http://zeenews.india.com/tamil-nadu/ensure-tamil-is-taught-in-cbse-icse-schools-in-tamil-nadu-dmk-urges-aiadmk-govt-2006972.html?pfrom=article-next-story">http://zeenews.india.com/tamil-nadu/ensure-tamil-is-taught-in-cbse-icse-schools-in-tamil-nadu-dmk-urges-aiadmk-govt-2006972.html?pfrom=article-next-story</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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