<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><h1 class="gmail-artTitle">Supreme Court stays Madras HC’s decision to allow Navodaya schools to be set up in Tamil Nadu</h1>
<h2 class="gmail-subhead">The Tamil Nadu government had gone to the apex
court saying the state's education system follows a two language policy,
where students are taught Tamil and English till 10th standard.</h2>
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<p>The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Madras High
Court's order for setting up Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) in Tamil
Nadu.</p><p>The Tamil Nadu government had gone to the apex court saying
the state's education system follows a two language policy, where
students are taught Tamil and English till 10th standard.</p><p>JNVs
are government-run residential schools that were established to improve
the quality of education in rural areas. They follow a three-language
policy, wherein their students are taught the regional language, Hindi
and English.</p><p>The setting up of these schools was earlier opposed
by the state government as it feared that Sanskrit would eventually
replace Tamil, the state's regional language, in the education system.</p><div class="gmail-hide-moblie gmail-mid-arti-ad"><div id="gmail-Moneycontrol/MC_News/MC_News_Internal_Article_Native">
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that Hindi will not be imposed on students who take admission in the
state's JNVs. The issues arose after the state stuck to its stand of
following a two language policy, which featured only Tamil and English,
not Hindi.</p>The Centre had said schools will compulsorily teach Tamil
to students from 5th to 10th grade and it will be an additional language
for students in the 11th and 12th grades. After the clarification, the
Madras High Court gave a thumbs up to setting up JNVs and they were set
to open in every district of the state.<br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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