CHENNAI: The Union government has sanctioned grants totalling Rs 41.97 crore to the Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai, towards promotion of classical Tamil in the last five years.
Under various schemes of Grants for Promotion of Indian Languages, the Union government allocates funds for promotion of Sindhi, Urdu, Sanskrit, Hindi and other Scheduled/non-Scheduled languages. The grants allotted in the last five years stood at Rs 2,367.63 crore, said Union minister of state for education, Annapurna Devi, while responding to a question raised by DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran in Lok Sabha.
The minister said the policy of the Union government was to promote all Indian languages, including classical Tamil, and several steps had been taken in this regard. A grant of Rs 5.10 crore was released in 2016-17 and Rs 10.67 crore in the next fiscal. A sum of Rs 4.65 crore and Rs 9.8 crore were released in 2018-19 and 2019-20 respectively, while Rs 11.73 crore was granted during last fiscal year. “National Education Policy 2020 provides, wherever possible, for medium of instruction to be in the mother tongue/local language upto at least class 5 and preferably up to Class VIII,” Devi said.
The Union government set up the CICT, Chennai, for promotion of classical Tamil. The CICT has 42 publications in book format and 8 publications in multimedia and non-book format.
Under various schemes of Grants for Promotion of Indian Languages, the Union government allocates funds for promotion of Sindhi, Urdu, Sanskrit, Hindi and other Scheduled/non-Scheduled languages. The grants allotted in the last five years stood at Rs 2,367.63 crore, said Union minister of state for education, Annapurna Devi, while responding to a question raised by DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran in Lok Sabha.
The minister said the policy of the Union government was to promote all Indian languages, including classical Tamil, and several steps had been taken in this regard. A grant of Rs 5.10 crore was released in 2016-17 and Rs 10.67 crore in the next fiscal. A sum of Rs 4.65 crore and Rs 9.8 crore were released in 2018-19 and 2019-20 respectively, while Rs 11.73 crore was granted during last fiscal year. “National Education Policy 2020 provides, wherever possible, for medium of instruction to be in the mother tongue/local language upto at least class 5 and preferably up to Class VIII,” Devi said.
The Union government set up the CICT, Chennai, for promotion of classical Tamil. The CICT has 42 publications in book format and 8 publications in multimedia and non-book format.
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