The Tamil Nadu government will not bow to the hegemony of the Union government, said State School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi at the DMK-led INDIA bloc’s protest against Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhanās recent statement. He had stated that funds under the Samagra Shiksha scheme would not be released for Tamil Nadu unless the state fully implemented the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
Slamming the union government for its alleged attempt to coerce states into adopting the NEP and its components, Mahesh said, “We reject the National Education Policy (NEP), the PM-Shri scheme, and Hindi imposition.”
The Centre and the Tamil Nadu government have been at loggerheads on the implementation of the NEP and the three-language formula proposed in the policy. While the DMK has accused the Centre of taking continuous measures aimed at “Dravidian-Tamil” hate and steps to impose Hindi under the guise of the three-language policy, Union Minister Pradhan claimed they were politicizing the policy and questioned why they were resisting it when the rest of the country had adopted it.