 "DMK chief M K Stalin and party leaders pay tribute to M Karunanidhi on his 95th birth anniversary, in Chennai on Monday. Stalin welcomed the Centre's move to revise the draft education policy. Photo: PTI")
Following outrage over a proposal that intended to make Hindi mandatory in schools in non-Hindi speaking states, the ministry of human resource development on Monday revised the draft National Education Policy (NEP), 2019. Deviating from the original suggestion of keeping Hindi as a mandatory subject in all schools, the draft policy now calls for students to choose their subjects in Classes VI or VII.
While the original draft NEP had suggested that students in non-Hindi speaking states would have to study “the regional language, Hindi and English”, in the revised draft, no mention of Hindi or English language can be found.
