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PTR (@ptrmadurai) strikes again🫡
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1.Parliamentary Committee's Hindi recommendations are a statement of aggression against non-Hindi speaking states

2.These draconian recommendations will profoundly transform society and make it significantly less equal

@ptrmadurai 3. There is a long history in India that when you impose Hindi as the de-facto language for the government functions to be accessible, it's the sure path to elimination, eradication or significant reduction of existing regional languages and their ability to thrive

4. Whenever these kinds of dictatorial, authoritarian insertions of a particular way of functioning have been attempted in the past, particularly on the basis of language, they have led to very very very bad outcomes, we have seen in Tamil Nadu once in 1930s and again in 1960s

5. Official languages act, 1963 clearly dictates English to be continued as official language indefinitely along with Hindi; this committee has gone beyond its constitutional remittance with its recommendations of 'mandatory' nature, and contradictory to this act

6.If Hindi is made compulsory medium in KVs, IITs, IIMs and Central Universities in Hindi speaking states, students from South India, West Bengal and North East couldn't study there

This will diminish these institutions and impoverish them of talent - and divide India

(Thapar)

7.Not only this is detrimental to the non-native Hindi speakers, but it will also be detrimental to the Hindi speakers who get admitted to these universities, because Hindi is not the language of global technical research, propagation and innovation

English is🤷‍♀️

8.There are so many studies to show the strong correlation between increase in proficiency in English and Human Capital Index

9. There is also strong correlation between increase in proficiency in English and Per Capita Productivity

Examples: Netherlands, Austria and Singapore

10. Committee recommends for Hindi to replace English as the language for examination for recruitment to government then candidates from non-Hindi states will be placed at a considerable disadvantage

(Already there is a much greater proportion of Hindi speakers in UPSC)

A union government that is failing to deliver real growth, jobs and quality of life to people, is starting look for other ways that can provide a wedge and start creating a division and fracturing of society for electoral benefits

#StopHindilmposition 🛑

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