
How the two-language policy officially came into force in the State of Madras
The HinduA political controversy is raging in Tamil Nadu over the BJP-led Union government’s insistence on adoption of the three language formula proposed in the National Education Policy-2020. In early 1968, Parliament adopted The Official Languages Act, 1967, to permit the continuation of English, in addition to Hindi, as the language of official communication, deferring an earlier policy of adopting Hindi as the sole official language in the country. As the Resolution on the Language Policy passed along with the Official Languages Act will result in injustice to the people in the non-Hindi regions by placing them at a disadvantage with new burdens, and as all the political parties are unanimously of the opinion that the said resolution should not be enforced, this House resolves that the Union Government should immediately suspend the operation of that resolution and devise ways and means to ensure that the people in the non-Hindi regions are not subject to any disadvantage or additional burden,” the resolution said. “This House is of the opinion that the said resolution, by insisting on the enforcement of the three-language formula, aims to force Hindi on the people of non-Hindi regions with the ultimate object of making only Hindi the sole Official Language,” it added. He had not done that; he was making earnest attempts to solve the language problem and tackle the situation created after the passage of the Official Languages Act,” said a report in The Hindu dated January 24, 1968.
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