CHENNAI: The Union government sanctioned grants of 41.97 crore to Central Institute of Classical
Tamil
in Chennai towards promotion of classical Tamil in the last five years.
The grants allotted for the last five years stood at 2,367.63 crore, said Union minister of state for education Annpurna
Devi
, while responding to a question from DMK’s
Dayanidhi Maran
in the
Lok Sabha
.
A grant of 5.10 crore was released in 2016-17 and 10.67 crore in the next fiscal. A sum of 4.65 crore and 9.8 crore were released in 2018-19 and 2019-20 respectively, while 11.73 crore was granted during last fiscal year. “National Education Policy 2020 provides, wherever possible, for medium of instruction to be in the mother tongue/local language upto at least class 5 and preferably upto class 8,” Devi said.
The Union government set up CICT, Chennai, for promotion of classical Tamil. CICT has 42 publications in book format and 8 publications in multimedia and non-book format.tnn
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