Union Home Minister Amit Shah, while participating in the CISF Day at the newly named Rajaditya Chola Recruits Training Centre at Thakkolam in Ranipet district, said until recently, there was no place for mother tongue in the conduct of examinations for the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF). “You cannot write it in Bengali, Kannada, or Tamil. However, Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided it should be conducted in all languages in the Eighth Schedule [of the Constitution]. So now, even youth in Tamil Nadu can write the exam in Tamil,” he said.
On the occasion, he said several States were offering medical and engineering education using the regional language as the medium of instruction. He appealed to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to follow suit and offer medical and engineering courses in Tamil medium at the earliest. “I have been asking for this for the last two years but to no avail. I hope today he will certainly do something,” Mr. Shah said.