“The policy says, until at least Grade 5, but preferably till Grade 8 and beyond, it will be the home language/mother-tongue/local language/regional language. Nevertheless, he also pointed out how Hindi-belt states avoided teaching other Indian languages.Īnother debate that NEP has engendered is around “the medium of instruction”. In various articles and videos on social media, he has said, “…nowhere does the draft NEP take a Hindi-chauvinist position, while it simply repeats the three-language formula”. Prominent among them is Yogendra Yadav, who called it “a step forward”. There’s some support for the NEP among the liberal commentariat. There aren’t many instructors for Kannada, Malayalam or Marathi,” so eventually “we are left with Sanskrit as the third language option,” said Brijesh Kumar, MA student at Delhi University. Except for central schools, we rarely get any other Indian language to learn, be it in private or state-government schools. “I am from UP and studied in a private school following the UP state board curriculum. “Sanskrit will thus be offered at all levels of school and higher education, as an important, enriching option for students, including as an option in the three-language formula.”Ī woman teaching in a regional school Getty Images NEP 2020 reinstated the value of Sanskrit by offering it as an option in the three-language formula. In states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, often the third-language option provided is Sanskrit.
Meanwhile, Hindi-speaking states also failed to offer students the option of studying other Indian languages. Karnataka too registered a formal protest, with Congress leader and former chief minister Siddaramaiah calling the draft a brutal assault on the states. Stalin had described it as an attempt to “impose Hindi and Sanskrit”. The Centre then revised it and clarified that there is no compulsion of language in NEP 2020.įollowing the release of NEP on 29 July 2020, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. The controversy recently resurfaced after the draft New Education Policy was released for public consultation on. For both Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu-the ruling DMK and its rival AIADMK opposing “Hindi” have been one of the most important issues. The debate over “Hindi Imposition” through education started with the Kothari Commission Report on education and national development in 1966. So far, Tamil Nadu has remained the most vocal critic of the three-language formula. “Tamil, which is the mother tongue, and the global-link language English, have been in vogue (in the state) as per the two-language formula.” This came after reports speculating that Tamil Nadu might consider the three-language policy being mooted by the Centre. Last week, the Tamil Nadu school education commissioner released a press note reiterating the state’s stand on the two-language policy.
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