Home Minister Amit Shah appealed to the Tamil Nadu government to introduce Tamil as the medium of instruction in medical and technical education in the state.
Attending the platinum jubilee celebration of India Cements in Tamil Nadu he said, “I appeal to the Tamil Nadu government to introduce Tamil as the medium of instruction in medical and technical education. A number of state governments have made this effort and students have started deriving educational benefits out of it.”
he further added that introducing Tamil as the mother tongue would help students understand the Tamil medium their lessons better and will help them in attaining higher education and conducting further research in their subjects with their mother tongue as the medium of instruction.
He said that Tamil is one of the oldest languages in the world. Preserving and promoting Tamil language is the responsibility of the entire nation. He further revealed that it was advised to introduce Tamil as a medium of instruction in 1350 seats. But he said that as per latest data only in 50 seats, Tamil is used as the medium of instruction.
“If the Tamil Nadu government makes the move to provide medical and technical education in Tamil language, it will in itself be considered as a great service to the promotion of the language,” he stated.
In the same program he announced that India will become a 5 trillion-dollar economy by 2025. “In the last eight years, India has achieved the feat of becoming the 5th largest economy from the 11th rank it held earlier, leaving Britain behind. Even a recent study conducted by Morgan Stanley predicts that no one can stop the Indian economy from holding the 3rd rank in the world by 2027,” the home minister said at the august gathering.
Reiterating the pivotal role the infrastructure sector has to play in achieving this success, he said that the Government of India has introduced a number of effective policies to make it possible. “Be it in the space sector, drone sector, or making India the hub of defense manufacturing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has brought about major changes in the existing policies,” he added.
The Home Minister also asserted that the Prime Minister has given the biggest opportunity to Tamil Nadu to attract investment in the defense sector by introducing the Tamil Nadu defense industry corridor which connects Chennai, Tiruchirapalli, Coimbatore, Salem, and Hosur.
