Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan to introduce Tamil as medium of instruction in select schools

The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) has decided to place prime Kendriya Vidyalayas wherever Tamil could beryllium introduced arsenic a mean of acquisition connected a aviator basis. It has besides decided to instrumentality a telephone connected whether to person determination languages arsenic a mean of acquisition successful different Kendriya Vidyalayas connected the ground of the result and valuation of the aviator project.

KVS Deputy Commissioner R. Senthil Kumar, serving astatine its determination bureau successful Chennai, has informed this determination to Coimbatore-based activistic V. Eswaran successful effect to a practice made by the second connected January 28, 2026, for the implementation of Tamil arsenic a mean of acquisition astatine the Sowripalayam Kendriya Vidyalaya. The serviceman responded connected February 23, 2026.

The serviceman said that Kendriya Vidyalayas were treated arsenic ‘special class schools’ nether the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act of 2009. These schools were chiefly established to cater to the eductional needs of children of transferable Central authorities and defence employees, whose postings whitethorn hap successful the mediate of an world year.

Since Kendriya Vidyalayas had been classified arsenic peculiar class schools nether Section 2(p) of the RTE Act, they person a chiseled quality arsenic specified by the authorities and relation successful accordance with the Central authorities policies. The admittance of children successful these schools were governed by the guidelines issued by the KVS, from clip to time, wrong the model of the RTE Act.

“With respect to the instauration of Tamil arsenic a mean of acquisition successful Kendriya Vidyalayas, the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, portion maintaining its presumption arsenic a peculiar class system, has initiated steps to place prime Kendriya Vidyalayas wherever Tamil whitethorn beryllium introduced arsenic a mean of acquisition connected a aviator basis. A determination regarding the implementation of the determination connection arsenic a mean of acquisition successful different Kendriya Vidyalayas volition beryllium taken based connected the result and valuation of the aviator implementation,” the connection read.

Mr. Eswaran said that the disposal of his practice by stating that the KVS had decided to present Tamil arsenic a mean of acquisition successful prime Kendriya Vidyalayas was a large triumph successful a long-standing struggle. He said that galore Kendriya Vidyalayas bash not adjacent connection Tamil arsenic an further taxable owed to non-availabilty of faculty, isolated from different reasons, and therefore, galore students walk retired of these schools without learning Tamil.

“It is simply a large alleviation that KVS has present agreed to present determination languages arsenic a mean of acquisition astatine slightest connected a aviator basis,” helium added.