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powerful Brahmin community. have officially mandated the learning NEP 2020 seem unaware that follow-
In 1950 when the Constitution of of only two languages — Tamil and ing a prolonged battle in the courts in
India was approved by Parliament, English. The reasoning of the Dravid- 2014 the Supreme Court ruled that the
it contained Article 343 which pro- ian parties (including the opposition choice of medium of instruction is of
mulgated Hindi as free India’s na- AIADMK) is that if Hindi is accepted parents, not government.
tional language, although it provided as the national language, native Hindi On the issue of the state govern-
a clause that English would continue speakers from the northern states will ment’s power to frame its own educa-
to be the lingua franca for all official have a natural advantage in bagging tion policy, it can do so under Article
purposes of the Union for 15 years. In government, civil and defence ser- 246 List II of Seventh Schedule of
1965 when this interim period expired vices, and corporate jobs to the dis- the Constitution (aka the concurrent
and Hindi was declared the national advantage of non-native Hindi speak- list), says advocate MJ John Arokia
language, riots broke out across south ers. Therefore, maintaining English as Prabhu, vice president of the Tamil
India and the DMK initiated a seces- the neutral national language creates Nadu Private Schools Association,
sionist movement in Tamil Nadu. a level playing field. who also heads the legal team of the
As a result, Parliament accepted Notwithstanding this history, Delhi-based National Independent
English as the associate official lan- NEP 2020 confusingly mandates the Schools Alliance (NISA).
guage of India. In school education a three-language formula for all school “While the state government is en-
three language learning formula un- children but says “no language will be titled to formulate its own State Edu-
der which children countrywide would imposed on any state,” and “wherever cation Policy, it’s curious that there
learn Hindi and two other languages, possible, the medium of instruction isn’t a single representative of parents,
including English, was adopted. But until at least grade V, but preferably teachers or students on the 13-mem-
the three languages formula has till grade VIII and beyond, will be the ber Murugesan Committee which was
proved a non-starter with north Indi- home language/mother-tongue/local commissioned to formulate the pro-
ans showing little interest in learning language/regional language... This posed TN State Education Policy. This
Dravidian languages. Therefore, all will be followed by both public and is a grave lacuna,” says Prabhu.
post-1965 governments in Tamil Nadu private schools”. The formulators of Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)

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