{"id":259781,"date":"2025-03-03T01:23:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T19:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=259781"},"modified":"2025-03-03T01:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T19:53:56","slug":"nep-will-not-impose-hindi-pradhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/nep-will-not-impose-hindi-pradhan\/","title":{"rendered":"NEP will not impose Hindi: Pradhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 2 Mar:<\/strong> Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday asserted that the New Education Policy (NEP) would not impose Hindi on states and Tamil Nadu&#8217;s opposition has &#8220;political reasons&#8221; behind it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have never said in NEP-2020 that only Hindi will be there; we have only said that education will be based on mother tongue, in Tamil Nadu, it will be Tamil,&#8221; Pradhan told reporters here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The comments by the education minister come amid a tiff between the Tamil Nadu government and the Centre over the implementation of NEP and the three-language policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to answer to the political ambitions of few people. NEP-2020 is focused on different languages of India, be it Hindi, Tamil, Odia, or Punjabi. All the languages have equal importance. In Tamil Nadu, few are opposing because of politics,&#8221; Pradhan said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday said it is unnecessary to force any language as a third language in schools in the age of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Advanced translation technology already removes language barriers instantly. Students should not be burdened with extra languages,&#8221; he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DMK leader also alleged that the BJP insists that everyone in north India knows Hindi &#8220;to buy tea, pani puri, or use toilets.&#8221; (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 2 Mar: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday asserted that the New Education Policy (NEP) would not impose Hindi on states and Tamil Nadu&#8217;s opposition has &#8220;political reasons&#8221; behind it. &#8220;We have never said in NEP-2020 that only Hindi will be there; we have only said that education will be based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-259781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}