No Hindi here please, says Puducherry CM
Puducherry,
Jan
21:
Chief
Minister
V
Narayanasamy
said
that
the
territorial
administration
would
spare
no
efforts
to
protect
Tamil
language
and
it
would
never
accept
the
imposition
of
Hindi.
Unveiling
the
statue
of
the
Tamil
saint
and
poet
Thiruvalluvar
(the
author
of
Tamil
treatise
Tirukkural)
on
the
premises
of
the
Puducherry
Thamizh
Sangam,
he
said
this
was
made
clear
at
the
All
India
Education
Ministers
conference
convened
by
the
Centre
recently
to
discuss
the
New
Education
Policy.
Puducherry Education Minister R Kamalakannan, who attended the meeting, made it clear that the Puducherry administration was committed to two-language formula.
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"We would spare no steps to protect Tamil while adopting English as the link language," he said.
Narayanasamy said the education minister had made it clear that the Puducherry government would never budge from its stand to protect Tamil.
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He said the Puducherry government would never accept the imposition of Hindi.
Education Minister R Kamalakannan intervened to tell the chief minister that "none from Tamil Nadu had participated in the meeting convened by the HRD Ministry to discuss the New Education Policy recently".
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Office bearers of the Thamizh Sangam, Health minister Malladi Krishna Rao, Revenue minister M O H F Shah Jahan and delegates of various Tamil outfits were among those present.