'Painful and saddening': Tamil Nadu rejects Centre's 3-language policy

The Tamil Nadu government on Monday rejected the Centre's three-language formula proposed in the new National Education Policy and said there will not be any deviation from the two-language policy being followed in the state. Taking strong exception to the proposal for the three-language formula in the NEP, Chief Minister K Palaniswami after a chairing a meeting of Cabinet colleagues at the Secretariat here, said that the policy is painful and saddening. He added that the state will continue its decades-old policy of dual language, Tamil and English. The three-language policy allows states to decide on what the third language would be but political parties in Tamil Nadu look at this as an attempt by the impose Hindi.