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Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan have again clashed at NEP 2020. Stalin has accused the Center of withdrawing funds for “force” acceptance of central schemes.
Tamil Nadu has been in CM MK Stalin and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Loggerheads. (Image: PTI)
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan have been barely engaged in the war of words after four months to accept the provisions of National Education Policy (NEP), 2020. This issue is the same with allegations. It is only getting faster. This time, the TN CM said that the Center cannot “blackmail” to accept him as central schemes like PM-Shri and three-language sutras, conceptualized under Nap, Samagra Shaika Abhiyan (SSA) funds back to funds Take,
Tamil Nadu is one of the many opposition ruled states, against NEP. The state education minister has claimed that TN is yet to get funds for Rs 2,400 crore under SSA for 2024-25 and also has a final installment of Rs 249 crore under the program of 2023-24. The Governor of TN also raised the issue in the state assembly in this January, urging the Center to issue funds under the SSA, which affected the future of more than 40 lakh students and 2.2 lakh teachers delayed. Will go
After Delhi, Punjab, WB, SSA Fund, now it is being organized for TN
Last July, the Center stopped the disbursement of SSA funds for three opposition states-Delhi (then ruled by AAP), Punjab and West Bengal (WB). ) Plan. States were to sign a memorandum of a memorandum (MoU) to follow the plan.
However, these three states refused to sign the MoU, after which the funds under the SSA were stopped for about three quarters. It was around October last year that Delhi and Punjab finally agreed to signed an MoU to implement the plan, facing the Fund-Crunch. The AAP was defeated by power in the Delhi government in the recently held Delhi assembly elections held by the BJP.
Apart from these three states, Kerala and Tamil Nadu also refused to sign the MoU initially. Later, however, two southern states indicated that they were ready to implement the plan, but TN is yet to do so.
Last year, TN proposed to the Ministry of Education that when it was ready to implement PM-Shri, the prefix ‘PM’ be removed from the MoU, which was rejected by the East. Tamil Nadu also proposed that the Center issued a fund, stopping the amount allocated for the PM-Shri. It was also rejected by the Center, saying that since the funds under SSA are for complete funding for school education, the PM-Shri is a part, the state cannot get funds until they Do not apply all objectives under the scheme.
War of words
TN CM Stalin on Sunday spoke to reporters at Kashi-Tamil Sangam in Varanasi to share a video clip of Pradhan to share X (East Twitter), stating that Tamil Nadu is to be given to Tamil Nadu and three- Language The policy should be followed, which is now a law of law. He also slammed the latter to say that the state would not get money until the policy is accepted.
“Can the Education Minister specify which provision of the Indian Constitution makes the policy of three languages mandatory? India is a union of the states. Education comes in the concurrent list. The central government is not a complete guru in this matter. The TN CM posted the posted Tamil Nadu’s audacity to blackmail, saying, ‘No funds until the three -language policy is accepted,’ No funds are done, ‘TN CM said.
Responding to this, Pradhan spoke to the press on Monday on the occasion of an incident and said: “In our country’s regulatory process, in many states, especially in education, the policy of three languages applies. When NEP 2020 was implemented in the country, it was clearly stated that a 3-language policy should be adopted in the country. The reason for this is that given the current social and economic conditions, the country needs a system where any employment from any field can get employment. Keeping in mind the social, cultural and economic needs of the country, this requirement has been emphasized by experts, and they suggest that the triple formula for education is a useful system. ,
Pradhan also stated that he agrees that education is a subject in the concurrent list, “But to create a level-game area to create a competition among students, we have to come on a normal platform.” They do not have Hindi or any other language. We are committed to implementing NEP and there are certain conditions for the same. ,
SSA and PM-Shri
The PM-SHRI scheme was announced in the Union Budget 2022, which was demanding the development of 14,500 PM-SHRI schools across India, which would showcase each objectives envisaged in NEP, 2020 and lead other schools in the district Will provide
SSA Right to Education (RTE) is a flagship school education program to implement the Act 2009. The Center has to fund 60 percent of the scheme, while states have to bear 40 percent expenses except northeastern states and union regions (without a legislature), which has a large part of central funds. The SSA includes funds for the salaries of teachers and employees, among other major expenses for school activities.
Since SSA was designed by the ruling BJP government in 2018 and NEP was developed in 2020, East was aligned with NEP in 2021. A draft was sent to all states in this regard, and according to the officials of the Ministry of Education, none of the states were in the state. Then there was an objection to this. In 2022, the PM-SHRI scheme was announced and included under SSA. States need to confirm their participation in PM-Shri by signing an MoU with the Ministry of Education.
