Tamil medium: Govt. to file appeal in SC

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, MAY 20. The Tamil Nadu Government has decided to go on appeal against the High Court order quashing the GO on compulsory Tamil medium for all students from Standard I to V in all schools.

The school education department, which has just received a copy of the full bench order, has decided in principle to go on appeal before the Supreme Court. A senior education department official confirmed that the appeal will be filed shortly.

Meanwhile, the committee that was constituted to lay down an adapted syllabus for classes I to V, for schools that adopt Tamil as the medium of instruction has submitted their report. The Education Department will shortly approve the syllabus, which matriculation schools willing to switch over to the Tamil medium will adopt. The members of the committee were drawn from the Matriculation Board, departments of elementary education, teacher's training and other educationists.

The revised syllabus is only `marginally different' from the matriculation syllabus, sources add. ``We are only adapting it in terms of the medium of communication; it will not be a switchover to the State board'', they explain. As far as nursery sections are concerned, the existing kindergarten syllabus will be followed by the neo-converts to Tamil medium.

Meanwhile, in anticipation of the Government's appeal, two organisations, the Tamil Nadu Tamil and English schools Association and the Tamil Nadu Nursery, Primary, Matriculation and Higher Secondary Schools Managements Association have already filed caveats.

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