UGC circular on third language is an attempt to impose Hindi: Governor’s address

The Tamil Nadu authorities opposed the caller circular of the University Grants Commission (UGC) mandating the teaching of the 3rd connection astatine each higher acquisition institutions and urged the Union authorities not to instrumentality it.

Governor R.N. Ravi’s address, deemed to person been work retired successful the Assembly connected Tuesday, spelt retired the government’s presumption connected this substance connected Tuesday. (Though the Governor declined to work retired the prepared code and walked out, the Assembly adopted a solution that the code prepared by the authorities and sent to him would beryllium considered arsenic having been work retired by him successful the House.)

“This authorities considers this enactment of the University Grants Commission arsenic solely an indirect effort to enforce the Hindi connection and powerfully urges the Union authorities not to instrumentality the same,” according to the address. “This authorities has not accepted the three-language look prescribed successful the Union government’s acquisition policy. Even erstwhile grants legitimately owed to Tamil Nadu were withheld, which resulted successful a important fiscal burden, the Tamil Nadu authorities had consistently reiterated that it would not judge the Union government’s three-language formula,” it said.

The Tamil Nadu State Education Policy reaffirmed that the two-language look had ever been the argumentation of the State. “We person been safeguarding the two-language acquisition argumentation formulated by Perarignar Anna [former Chief Minister C.N. Annadurai] successful 1968 arsenic dearly arsenic our ain eyes. When it comes to protecting the Tamil  language, which is inseparable from our beingness and emotions, determination tin beryllium nary country for compromise. Under nary circumstances volition this government, nether the enactment of the Hon’ble Chief Minister, judge immoderate alteration to this policy.”

The code besides recalled that connected respective occasions, the Tamil Nadu Assembly adopted resolutions opposing the imposition of Hindi. “After this authorities assumed office, a unanimous solution was passed successful this Assembly successful 2022 urging the Union authorities not to instrumentality the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee connected Official Language, which included proposals to marque Hindi the mean of acquisition astatine acquisition institutions of the Union government.”