The Centre is committed to implementing the New Education Policy across the country, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said Monday, and dismissed the Tamil Nadu government’s opposition to the NEP as “politics”.He said the NEP does not impose Hindi or any other language on students in the DMK-ruled state “but what is wrong if a student in Tamil Nadu learns multilingual aspect in education?”
“It can be Tamil, English and other Indian languages,” he told reporters. “There is no imposition of Hindi or any other language on them. Some friends in Tamil Nadu are doing politics. But the Indian government is committed to implementing NEP and there are certain conditions with NEP.”
The NEP is the new aspirational common platform. I respect all languages. This NEP, envisioned by PM Modi, is puts emphasis on the mother tongue…Tamil is one of the oldest languages of our civilisation,” he said.