Archive · 24 Jun 2025
Tamil Nadu Officials Criticize Sanskrit Funding Bias
The Tamil Nadu government is upset about how the central government gives money to different languages.
They think Sanskrit gets much more money than Tamil and other languages from South India.
Because of this, they are changing school textbooks.
They are also starting a program to make sure that schools are not influenced by any particular community.
Tamil Nadu's Education Minister criticized the central government's funding for languages.
The minister announced textbook revisions in response to the funding disparity.
The central government allocated significantly more funds to Sanskrit.
Stalin stated that Sanskrit received substantially more funding than Tamil and other South Indian languages.
An awareness drive will be launched to address communal influence in schools.
- Who
- Tamil Nadu School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and the central government
- What
- Tamil Nadu officials criticized the central government's language funding, citing bias towards Sanskrit.
- When
- June 24, 2025
- Where
- Tamil Nadu
- Why
- Officials believe the funding allocation demonstrates bias against Tamil and other South Indian languages.
Tamil Nadu Government
Central Government
Funding Allocation
Tamil Nadu Government
Central government favors Sanskrit over other languages.
Central Government
Central government funds languages fairly.
- Politician
- Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, M.K. Stalin
- Key Issue
- Language Funding
- Action
- Textbook Revisions, Awareness Drive
- Languages Mentioned
- Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia
- Funding Allocation (2014-2025)
- Sanskrit: Rs 2,532.59 crore; Other classical languages: Rs 147.56 crore
