‘We changed notion that a strong government should control everything’: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government has changed the notion that a strong government should control everything and everyone, and underlined that the New Education Policy 2020 “ensures greater freedom for youth” to take decisions. PM Modi, who was speaking at the 42nd convocation of Anna University in the presence of chief minister MK Stalin, also defended the new education policy, aspects of which have been vehemently opposed by the Stalin-led DMK government. The new National Education Policy ensures greater freedom for youth to take decisions according to evolving situations.” The DMK government has refused to adopt the three-language formula under the NEP and decided to continue with the state’s two-language policy of English and Tamil which has been in place since the 1960s. Higher education minister K Ponmudi spoke of how DMK patriarch and late chief minister M Karunanidhi abolished entrance tests to engineering colleges for the benefit of rural students.
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