Chennai: The union government agreed to provide a Grant of 41.97 Crore to the Classic Tamil Institute in Chennai to promote Tamil Classic in the last five years.
Grants given for the past five years have established at 2,367.63 Crore, said the Union State Minister for Education AnnPurnurna Devi, responding to questions from DMK PowerDhi Maran at Lok Sabha.
The 5.10 crore grant was released in 2016-17 and 10.67 Crore in the next fiscal.
The amount of 4.65 crores and 9.8 crore were released in 2018-19 and 2019-20, while 11.73 crores were given during the last fiscal year.
“National Education Policy 2020 provides, wherever possible, for instruction media is in the mother / local language to at least a class 5 and preferably until grade 8,” Devi said.
The United States established CICT, Chennai, for promotion of Tamil Classic.
CICT has 42 publications in book format and 8 publications in multimedia format and non-book.
RS 42CR is spent on classic Tamil promotion in 5 years
