[lg policy] India:Supreme Court stays Madras HC’s decision to allow Navodaya schools to be set up in Tamil Nadu

[Harold Schiffman]

Supreme Court stays Madras HC’s decision to allow Navodaya schools to be
set up in Tamil Nadu 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.​
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The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Madras High Court's order for
setting up Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) in Tamil Nadu.

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.​

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.

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.
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The state government had approached the High Court with this issue. Pleas
were also filed
<http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/state-not-in-favour-of-navodaya-schools/article19050840.ece>,
through which the parties stated their concern over Sanskrit or Hindi
becoming the primary language instead of Tamil.

After discussions between the Centre and the state, the central government
had clarified
<http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/120917/open-navodaya-schools-madras-high-court.html>
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.
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.
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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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