Centre should release Rs. 2,152 crore funds due for Tamil Nadu: CM asks PM
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to release Rs 2,100 crore funds pending under the Samagra Shiksha Scheme (SSA) to the state.
The Centre had reportedly withheld disbursal of funds to Tamil Nadu over its disagreement to implement PM-Shri and three-language formula in the southern state.
The chief minister, in a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, handed over by state Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu on Saturday, the lack of funds “affects the future of lakhs of students.”
Stalin urged the Centre not to make the implementation of National Education Policy (NEP 2020 a condition for disbursal of funds. Stalin affirmed that Tamil Nadu will stick to its decades-long two-language formula of Tamil and English.
Modi was in Tamil Nadu to attend the 1000th anniversary of Rajendra Chola I.
He dedicated development works worth ₹4,800 crore in Thoothukudi on Saturday.
During his address on Saturday, Modi said in past 10 years, the Central government has transferred Rs 3 lakh crore to Tamil Nadu through devolution—more than three times the amount disbursed by the previous dispensation.