Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday urged Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to remove the mandatory. criteria of knowledge of Hindi for the recruitment of non-teaching posts in National Institutes of Technology (NITs).
In a post on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Mr. Stalin said the inclusion of a test on Hindi by the National Testing Agency for in the common examination to be conducted for filling non-teaching vacancies in nine NITs undermined “the linguistic equality” and blatantly disregarded diversity. He said imposing of Hindi deprived the opportunities for youth from Tamil Nadu and other non Hindi-speaking States.
Madurai MP Su. Venkatesan from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) had raised the issue by writing a letter to Mr. Pradhan on Wednesday, questioning the need for mandating the knowledge of Hindi and requesting his intervention to remove the same.
