A fierce battle has erupted between the Central Government and the Tamil Nadu Government over the rule of teaching three languages ​​in schools under the National Education Policy (NEP). Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin accused the Centre of blackmailing and threatening it for not implementing the three-language policy. Stalin has also accused the Centre of imposing the Hindi language and not releasing funds for his state.

Responding to Stalin’s accusations, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that the Central Government is fully committed to implementing the National Education Policy. This issue has sparked a debate in Tamil Nadu after a long gap of almost 50 years. The ruling AIADMK has completely rejected the three-language formula and talked about adopting a two-language policy.

The National Education Policy advocates a flexible three-language formula while emphasising multilingual education which allows states to choose their own languages ​​within the framework. However, the Tamil Nadu government has consistently opposed the policy, arguing that it undermines the state’s long-standing two-language formula and poses a potential threat to linguistic identity.

So much is the opposition to Hindi in the state that MK Stalin even went on to say that he would not agree to implement the NEP in the state even if the central government gave it Rs 10,000 crore. He added that the Centre was saying that Tamil Nadu will get Rs 2,000 crore if the state implements NEP but he will not commit the sin of pushing Tamil Nadu back two thousand years.

It is worth noting that the language issue snowballed into a huge controversy after Pradhan said that Tamil Nadu has to follow the Indian Constitution and that the three-language policy is part of the law. Until Tamil Nadu accepts the three-language policy, the state will not get education-related funds from the Centre. Following this, Stalin said that........

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