Pro-Tamil activists blacken Hindi text on TN railway nameboard. Incident comes amid ongoing tensions over language policies in Tamil Nadu. DMK-led Tamil Nadu government has been vocal in its opposition to what it calls \”Hindi imposition\” by the Centre. Tamil, spoken by more than eight crore people, has been allocated only Rs 74 crore for development. Sanskrit — a language spoken by only a few thousand — has received Rs 1,488 crore. The language issue remains a significant political flashpoint in the state. The ruling DMK and its ally, the AIADMK, have both asserted their commitment to the state’s existing two-language policy, which mandates the teaching of only Tamil and English. The Tamil government has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to release Rs 2,152 crore under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) for the state, arguing that these are two distinct centrally sponsored programmes. The Chief Minister has also accused the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan of attempting to enforce Hindi through NEP’s three-language formula, which Tamil Nadu opposes.
