School students in TN must learn other Indian languages, says Guv Ravi

 School students in TN must learn other Indian languages, says Guv Ravi

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK

26.01.2022

Chennai: Stressing the need for school students in Tamil Nadu learning other Indian languages, Governor R N Ravi said depriving students of knowledge of other Indian languages was unfair to all. He also emphasised on improving the quality of education in government schools and restoring the once-enviable reputation of universities.

In his Republic Day address on Tuesday, Ravi underscored the importance of Tamil language, and added: "Itis also important thatour school students learn other Indian languages like students in other states. Depriving our students of knowledge of other Indian languages is unfair to all. Besides fostering brotherliness and bettermutual appreciation, a linguistic intellectual and cultural cross-pollination willenrich all of us and also open several opportunities for our harmonious growth,” he added.

Pointing out that improving the quality of education in government schools is the crying need of the time, he said, the negative differential in the educational outputs between the government and private schools is worrisome.

"Before the introduction of NEET, the share of students from government schools to the seats in government medical colleges was hardly 1%. Thanks to the affirma-tive action of 7. 5% reservation for Government school students that the number has improved significantly. However, there is urgent need to improve the quality of education also in the Government schools," Ravi said. “In higher education too, we mustwork hardto restore the once enviable reputation of our universities,”he added.

Governor also paid rich tributes to freedom fighters from Tamil Nadu including Veeramangai Velu Nachiyar, Veerapandia Kattabomman, V. O. Chidambaram Pillai and Mahakavi Subramania Bharathi.