CM Stalin releases Tamil Nadu’s State coverage for varsity schooling; reiterates two-language formulation

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Okay. Stalin on Friday (August 8, 2025) launched the Tamil Nadu State Training Coverage – Faculty Training, and reiterated the State’s two-language coverage of educating solely Tamil and English. The coverage has been designed conserving in thoughts Tamil Nadu’s distinctive character and is geared toward making ready college students for the long run with a imaginative and prescient, he stated.

Itemizing out among the highlights of the coverage, Mr. Stalin stated as a substitute of (encouraging) memorising, the coverage was to assist college students to suppose and act. He stated the coverage geared toward making college students artistic, sought to hyperlink schooling with bodily coaching, and emphasised the importance of the Tamil language.

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The DMK authorities believed that every one college students should full their faculty schooling and pursue larger schooling. This 12 months, about 72% of scholars who accomplished Plus Two exams have been pursuing larger schooling, he stated. He hoped the quantity could be larger within the coming years, and that the goal was 100%.

In his speech, Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin reiterated the Tamil Nadu authorities’s place to deliver again schooling to the State Checklist. Minister for Faculty Training Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi stated that the Nationwide Training Coverage was a “vidhi” (destiny), however the State Training Coverage was a “madhi”.

The coverage was formulated primarily based on the suggestions made by the Justice D. Murugesan Committee that was tasked with drafting a definite State Training Coverage.

In April 2022, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Okay. Stalin introduced the structure of a committee to formulate a State Training Coverage for Tamil Nadu. Justice Murugesan, former Chief Justice of the Delhi Excessive Court docket, led the committee that comprised a broad spectrum of specialists in teachers, sports activities, and music, amongst others.

Earlier, then Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, in his revised funds speech 2021-22, had stated the federal government would appoint a high-level committee of educationists and specialists to formulate a definite State schooling coverage consistent with the historic legacy, the current scenario, and the State’s future aspirations.

In July 2024, the Justice Murugesan committee submitted its report back to the Tamil Nadu authorities. The dedicated had, amongst others, beneficial that formal education should start solely at Class 1 in all establishments on “completion of 5 years” as on 31 July of a tutorial 12 months. It might be famous that the Nationwide Training Coverage (NEP) favours kids finishing six years to enter formal faculty schooling.

In the course of the occasion on the Anna Centenary Library campus in Chennai, the Chief Minister additionally felicitated college students who studied in State-run colleges and have secured admissions into varied prestigious larger schooling establishments. Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, Ministers Ma. Subramanian, P.Okay. Sekarbabu, Govi. Chezhiaan, and Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, Chennai Mayor R. Priya, Chief Secretary N. Muruganandam, and senior officers have been additionally current.