Facing pressure from Tamil Nadu against the draft National Education Policy’s recommendation for teaching Hindi in all the States, the Union government has issued a modified draft leaving out a controversial clause. In the modified draft uploaded by the Human Resource Development Ministry, a Section, titled ‘Flexibility in the choice of languages’ has been changed, omitting any reference to ‘which’ languages students may choose. There is no mention of Hindi in the clause. The revised policy requires proficiency in any three languages. The earlier draft education policy triggered outrage in southern states, led by Tamil Nadu, which said they will not tolerate Hindi imposition in the state that doesn't speak the language. In the previous version of the draft policy, English and Hindi were proposed as mandatory languages in nonHindi speaking states while a third language was mandatory in Hindispeaking states. On this edition of the big picture we will analyse the 3 language policy in the Draft National Education Policy.

Guest Ganapathy Subramaniam, Chief of Bureau, Puthiya Thalaimurai,
Dr. Manisha Priyam, Political Analyst,
Aditi Tandon, Special Correspondent, The Tribune,
Sushil Chandra Tripathi, Former Secretary, Ministry of HRD,

Anchor Frank Rausan Pereira