‘Implement Tamil Learning Act’

Activists and academicians came together on Monday to raise a pitch for implementing the Tamil Learning Act, 2006, under which Tamil is a compulsory language under Part I for schools following the Samacheer Kalvi syllabus. “It has been gradual and not sudden and the department issued letters to schools asking them to implement the Act,” he said, adding that the circular was only in continuation to that. S. Muthukumaran, former vice-chancellor of Bharathidasan University, said that it was imperative that students in Tamil Nadu learn Tamil. S. Senthilnathan, vice-president, Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association, and S. Arumainathan, State president, Tamil Nadu Students Parents Welfare Association, and other members were among those present.