Tamil Nadu Govt subsidizes Urdu medium schools through teacher salary aid. All over India, only 30% of Muslims declare Urdu as their mother tongue. In TN, the proportion will be even lesser, since Labbai and Rowther castes are predominantly Tamil speaking. Dekkani Muslims /1 https://twitter.com/zeneraalstuff/status/1291601058309922816
are Urdu speakers and largely in North TN, regions formerly ruled by Nawab of Arcot. There were 280 Urdu Medium Schools for this population. Of these, 56 were Government aided. The GoTN can spend money for 56 Urdu medium schools, but refuses to allocate land for 40 odd /2
Navodaya Vidyalaya, on the grounds of rejecting Hindi. The Dravidian blatantly discriminates against rural SC/ST students /END
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