Amid the ongoing war of words with the Union government over sharing of due funds to the State, the Tamil Nadu government in the Budget announced that it will compensate for the pending funds from the Centre, from its own resources.
In the Assembly, Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu noted that the Union government withheld the rightful funds of Rs 2,152 crore to TN, for not accepting the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which makes accepting three-language policy mandatory. The Union government has blocked the funds under the Samagra Shiksha (SS) scheme, a central and State sponsored one.
The TN government has allocated funds keeping in mind the welfare of students. Salaries of the teachers/part-time teachers will be paid from our own resources to ensure the education of government school students remains unaffected,” read the Budget document.