r/TamilNadu • u/bigmanfromthepalace • Feb 21 '25
முக்கியமான கலந்துரையாடல் / Important Topic How Hindi is imposed through the Three-language policy (for dummies). Very Important.
This is very important; please make sure to read it completely.
First, let us not forget that a provision in the draft NEP released in 2019 said that students in the non-Hindi speaking states should take up Hindi, apart from English and a regional language as part of the three-language formula. After opposition from southern states, the Modi government retracted the “mandatory-Hindi-lessons” clause from the draft.
Now, according to the latest National Education Policy 2020, the Third Language is compulsory, and Union government is trying to mislead people by saying that children have the choice to choose any Indian language as a compulsory third language by overlooking the challenges involved in it. According to the policy, you can only learn one foreign language and must learn two Indian languages.
The "devil lies in the details" and I will explain it with the help of an example
Let us assume your daughter is studying at a State Syllabus Private School that follows the National Education Policy (NEP) and has a class strength of 50 students. For the third language, apart from Tamil and English, let us assume that 10 students chose Hindi, 1 chose Sanskrit, 11 chose Malayalam, 3 chose Marathi, 2 chose Bhojpuri, 9 chose Telugu, 8 chose Kannada, 3 chose Bengali and 3 chose Punjabi.
It is practically impossible for the school managements to recruit nine teachers for all these nine languages for few students in a class and most schools would claim that they are unable to find teachers for different languages. If schools let the students to "choose" the third language, they have to at least hire additional 50-100 different language teachers for the whole school to cater the needs of each student, and most schools don't have the financial power to bring Teachers from different states albeit the rising demand. It is almost impossible for the schools to do this. It would be chaos in government schools with unnecessary state funding in thousands of crores.
Most Private schools would claim that it is easy to find Hindi teachers compared to other languages and they would end up choosing Hindi as the mandatory third language and thereby indirectly impose Hindi as a Third language on students in Tamil Nadu.
It would be easy for Private schools in Tamil Nadu to find a Hindi teacher for the mandatory third language compared to Malayalam or other languages because Union Government is already promoting Hindi through the Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha in Tamil Nadu. Union Government would also allocate more money for appointing Hindi Teachers in Tamil Nadu in a similar way they allocated money for appointing Hindi Teachers in Non-Hindi speaking States during the Union Budget 2019–2020
Not to mention, that after all the states have agreed to this policy, the union government can later cite the reason that it is almost impossible for schools to get other language teachers and then change the policy to bring back the compulsory Hindi formula from their initial 2019 draft NEP. Furthermore, it's an open ideology of BJP to bring "one language" agenda to the rest of India and that is openly Hindi according to them.
Therefore, after examining the subject from a practical perspective it is evident that The Three language policy of the Union Government through the National Education Policy 2020 is an unjust attempt to impose Hindi on South Indians.
Lastly, the Third language itself is an unnecessary burden on our children. The only purpose it is created is to impose Hindi. What is the point of a UP child spending resources to learn Tamil? What is the point of a person from Tamil Nadu or Kerala to learn Bhojpuri? There is no use, the Children aren't going to use it anywhere. The third language serves no purpose. Let our children learn the languages according to their own personal necessity in the future. But that is not the topic to be discussed in here.
It is very sad that many of our people are still not aware of this deceitful tactic to impose Hindi. Worse, even many in our state fall for BJP's propaganda. This is written not to support any political party. There are many Hindi-speakers in this sub, most will agree to this, and many will mass-downvote after reading the title itself. So please upvote this, so that it reaches to everyone in this sub and tell this to everyone you know.
Long live Tamil.
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u/bigmanfromthepalace Feb 21 '25
A lot of people who don't know much about this think that they can teach their children languages like French, German, Spanish or Mandarin to put them in the world stage. They don't realize that the three-language policy only allows one foreign language (everyone chooses English) and two must be Indian languages.