Tamil should be included as a second language in Kendriya Vidyalaya schools
Chennai: DMK has asked Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to include Tamil as a second language in the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) and other CBSE schools in Tamil Nadu from the current academic year (2024-22). Trichy Siva has written the letter. Trichy Siva also mentioned that he had raised this issue at zero time in Parliament. He had already met the Union Minister in person and stress about this news.
Tamil Teachers Needed
“In 49 Kendriya Vidyalaya schools, there is not even a single Tamil teacher, which prevents local students from studying their mother tongue as a subject in their state. On the other hand, Hindi and Sanskrit are compulsory. Trichy Siva said.
Tamil is a senior language and the non-teaching of Tamil in centrally-run schools is a matter of grave concern in a country with a constitutionally federal system. CBSE allowing 11th and 12th class students to choose optional technical subjects like Applied Mathematics instead of Second Language leads to avoid learning the mother tongue. Avoiding learning the Tamil language in Tamil Nadu again hurts the feelings of the people of the state. Tamil should be made a compulsory subject in KV and other CBSE schools in the current academic year to satisfy the people of Tamil Nadu and to ensure a federal philosophy. Thus said Trichy Siva in his letter.
State Secretary of the Communist Party’s view on teaching Tamil in KV schools
State Secretary of the Communist Party of India Muthuarasan stressed the need to ensure that state languages, especially in Tamil Nadu, teach Tamil from the first class in Kendriya Vidyalaya schools until the completion of schooling, removing the conditions for this and appointing full-time permanent teachers. In these schools, which are functioning under the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Central Government, the students are taught CBSE in English and Hindi only in the Central Curriculum. Kendriya Vidyalaya Education Rule 112 insists that the state language or mother tongue should be taught as an optional subject (which does not count for examination marks) in these schools.
The rule that the state language should be taught has been dropped in practice under the RSS-led BJP regime. A minimum of 20 students must express a desire to teach the respective state language or mother tongue. The teacher will be hired as a part-time teacher on a contract basis.
Conditions such as being taught only 40 minutes a day or two a week are an attempt to reject the mother tongue and impose Hindi and Sanskrit. The Communist Party of India strongly condemns this attitude of the Kendriya Vidyalaya administration.
Ensure that state languages are taught in Tamil Nadu, especially in Tamil Nadu, from the first class to the completion of schooling. The Communist Party of India urges the Central Government and the Union Ministry of Education to remove the conditions for this, appoint full-time permanent teachers and make it possible for them to learn their mother tongue. ”
