The Tamil Nadu government has submitted in the Supreme Court that the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Scheme is “fundamentally incompatible” with the two-language policy followed by the State.
The State, represented by senior advocate P. Wilson and advocate Sabarish Subramanium, in an affidavit said the three-language formula navodaya scheme would necessarily require deviation from the mandate of the Tamil Nadu Tamil Learning Act, 2006.
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“Such deviation would be impermissible in law and contrary to the settled legislative framework of the State,” the affidavit said.
The three-language formula is considered as a core pedagogical and administrative framework of the scheme. It required compulsory instruction in Hindi, English, and the mother tongue/regional language.
