<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="entry-title" style="margin:0px 50px 3px 0px;font-family:"yanone kaffeesatz",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:2.4em">Linguistic Minorities Forum of Tamilnadu welcomes 3-language idea</h1><div class="entry-meta" style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-size:0.9em"><span class="gmail-posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://newstodaynet.com/index.php/2019/06/10/linguistic-minorities-forum-of-tamilnadu-welcomes-3-language-idea/" title="2:16 PM" rel="bookmark" style="color:rgb(153,153,153);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">June 10, 2019</a></span><span class="gmail-byline"> by <span class="gmail-author gmail-vcard"><a class="gmail-url gmail-fn gmail-n" href="https://newstodaynet.com/index.php/author/ntbureau/" title="View all posts by NT Bureau" style="color:rgb(153,153,153);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">NT Bureau</a></span></span></div><div class="gmail-clearfix entry-content" style="margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><img class="gmail-wp-image-178929 gmail-alignleft" src="https://newstodaynet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/language-300x150.png" alt="" width="294" height="147" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em 0px;">Chennai: The Linguistic Minorities Forum of Tamilnadu has welcomed the Central government’s three-language idea.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px">A press release from the forum thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the initiative and Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami’s nationalistic outlook beyond local politics.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px">“There are 13 minority languages in our State. Everybody agrees that no language should be forced on any student, except the main language of the State, to keep them in the mainstream of communications in day-to-day transactions. But why should there be any objection if a student voluntarily opts to study any other language? All educationists of the State feel that Tamilnadu language policy is politically motivated and not considering the career prospects of our students,” the release stated.</p></div><span class="gmail-cat-links" style="margin:0px 20px 0px 0px"><i class="gmail-ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://newstodaynet.com/index.php/category/chennai/" rel="category tag" style="color:rgb(153,153,153);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">CHENNAI</a></span><span class="gmail-tags-links"><i class="gmail-ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://newstodaynet.com/index.php/tag/anti-hindi-protest/" rel="tag" style="color:rgb(153,153,153);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">anti hindi protest</a>, <a href="https://newstodaynet.com/index.php/tag/chennai-newstoday/" rel="tag" style="color:rgb(153,153,153);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">chennai newstoday</a>, <a href="https://newstodaynet.com/index.php/tag/india-language-policy/" rel="tag" style="color:rgb(153,153,153);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">india language policy</a>, <a href="https://newstodaynet.com/index.php/tag/linguistic-minorities-forum-of-tamilnadu-welcomes-3-language-idea/" rel="tag" style="color:rgb(153,153,153);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">linguistic minorities forum of tamilnadu welcomes 3 language idea</a>, <a href="https://newstodaynet.com/index.php/tag/modi/" rel="tag" style="color:rgb(153,153,153);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">modi</a>, <a href="https://newstodaynet.com/index.php/tag/new-education-policy/" rel="tag" style="color:rgb(153,153,153);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">new education policy</a>, <a href="https://newstodaynet.com/index.php/tag/palaniswami/" rel="tag" style="color:rgb(153,153,153);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">palaniswami</a>, <a href="https://newstodaynet.com/index.php/tag/tamilnadu-news-today/" rel="tag" style="color:rgb(153,153,153);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">tamilnadu news today</a>, <a href="https://newstodaynet.com/index.php/tag/tn/" rel="tag" style="color:rgb(153,153,153);text-decoration-line:none;outline:none">tn</a></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="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></div>