Language battle | A linga fracas over Hindi

Late in Could, the Tamil Nadu authorities took the unprecedented step of transferring the Supreme Court docket, looking for the disbursal of over Rs 2,000 crore in funds below the Samagra Shiksha Scheme (SSS), claiming the Union authorities had withheld it in a bid to coerce the state into implementing the Nationwide Schooling Coverage (NEP), 2020. Tamil Nadu has been vociferously opposing the NEP’s three-language method and the tacit pro-Hindi tilt ascribed to it.