The Tamil Nadu government said it would continue with the two-language formula, seeking to cool frayed tempers.
Parties in Tamil Nadu including바카라 웹사이트the DMK Saturday strongly opposed the three language formula's continuation with add-on features proposed in the draft National Education Policy alleging it was tantamount to바카라 웹사이트"thrusting" Hindi and wanted it junked.
The Tamil Nadu government said it would continue with바카라 웹사이트the two-language formula, seeking to cool frayed tempers.
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram in a series of tweets in Tamil said: "what is the meaning of three language formula in schools? The meaning is they will make Hindi a compulsory subject..."
In another tweet, he said "If Hindi language is a compulsory subject its import is imposition of Hindi."
"The BJP government's real face is beginning to emerge..." he also tweeted.
Meanwhile, "#StopHindiImposition,바카라 웹사이트#TNAgainstHindiImposition trended on the microblogging site Twitter.
The three language formula which bats for Hindi from "pre-school to class 12 was a big shocker," and the recommendation would "divide" the country, DMK chief M K Stalin said.
The draft policy prepared by a panel led by eminent바카라 웹사이트scientist K Kasturirangan was unveiled on Friday.
Recalling the anti-Hindi agitations beginning as early as 1937 in Tamil Nadu, the DMK leader in a statement here said바카라 웹사이트since 1968 the State was following the two-language formula of learning only Tamil and English.
The DMK would never tolerate imposition of Hindi and strongly oppose it. "Still, I believe that the Central BJP government will not make way for another language stir," he said.
The Dravidian party also said recommendations like바카라 웹사이트"Gurukula" mode of education, teaching Sanskrit and sending Hindi teachers from Hindi speaking States to non-Hindi speaking States would in due course cause a "big danger" to non-Hindi speaking people.
The recommendations, the DMK said rather than lifting바카라 웹사이트the standards of education has led to doubts that it had바카라 웹사이트"ulterior motives" like imposition of Hindi on non-Hindi speaking States and thrusting Sanskrit in schools.
Recalling Jawaharlal Nehru's assurance that English would바카라 웹사이트continue to be in use till such time desired by
non-Hindi speaking States, he also pointed out that the State had enacted years ago a Compulsory Tamil Learning Act.
Demanding the Centre to reject the draft바카라 웹사이트recommendations which was "imposition," of Hindi under the garb of three-language formula, he said his party MPs would voice their strong opposition in Parliament as soon as the바카라 웹사이트House was convened.
Taking potshots at the AIADMK for being what it called바카라 웹사이트a "yes master," to the Centre, he wanted Chief Minister K Palaniswami to strongly oppose it and if not remove the words바카라 웹사이트"Anna," and "Dravida," from his party's name.
The AIADMK is an abbreviation for All India Anna바카라 웹사이트Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
The BJP must never even dream to implement three바카라 웹사이트language formula in Tamil Nadu and such a "greedy dream," would lead to "catastrophic," consequences for them, he said.
Parties including the CPI and BJP's ally in the Lok Sabha polls, the PMK too alleged the recommendation on the three language formula was "imposition of Hindi" and wanted scrapping it.
Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan said "be it language or a project, if we do not like that, it should not be forced on us." He said his party would pursue legal options against it.
Education Minister K A Sengottaiyan told Puthiya바카라 웹사이트Thalaimurai Tamil news channel: "There will be no deviation from the two-language formula followed in Tamil Nadu. Only Tamil and English will continue to be taught in our State."바카라 웹사이트
The draft National Education Policy, 2019 available on the government website said the three-language formula will바카라 웹사이트need to be implemented in its spirit throughout the country,
promoting multilingual communicative abilities for a multilingual country.
Schools in Hindi speaking areas should also offer and teach Indian languages from other parts of India, it said.
The three language formula, followed since the adoption of the National Policy on Education 1968 and endorsed in subsequent years will be continued.
Since research now clearly showed that children picked바카라 웹사이트up languages quickly between the ages of 2 and 8, and moreover바카라 웹사이트that multilingualism has great cognitive benefits to students,
children will now be immersed in three languages early on, starting from the foundational stage onwards, it said.
"...students who wish to change one of the three languages they are studying may do so in Grade 6, so long as바카라 웹사이트the study of three languages by students in the Hindi-speaking states would continue to include Hindi and English and one of바카라 웹사이트the modern Indian languages from other parts of India, ...바카라 웹사이트while the study of languages by students in the non-Hindi-speaking states would include the regional language, Hindi and English."
Also, every student will take a fun course on "The바카라 웹사이트Languages of India" sometime in Grades 6-8.
The draft policy said India also has "an extremely rich literature in other classical languages, including mclassical Tamil, as well as classical Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Odia, in addition to Pali, Persian, and Prakrit; these classical languages and their literatures too
must be preserved for their richness and for the pleasure and of posterity."
A choice of foreign languages like French and German,바카라 웹사이트would be offered and available to interested students to choose as electives during secondary school.
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