India: Petitions challenging Tamil Learning Act rejected

[Francis Hult]

The Hindu

 

Petitions challenging Tamil Learning Act rejected

 

Law makes Tamil as compulsory subject from Standards I to X

Bench declines to interfere with High Court verdict

 

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected petitions challenging a legislation passed by the Tamil Nadu government making Tamil a compulsory subject from Standards I to X in all schools in the State from academic year 2006-2007.

 

A Bench of Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice J.M. Panchal dismissed, at the admission stage, special leave petitions filed by the Kanyakumari District Malayala Samajam and the Yogakshema Sabha, Kanyakumari, against a Madras High Court judgment upholding the constitutional validity of the law. 

 

Justice Pasayat cited an earlier apex court judgment, which had said that resistance to learn local language would not be in the interest of the country's unity. Learning the local language would be in the interest of the child. 

 

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http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/19/stories/2008021957810100.htm

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