Monday, May 14, 2007

+2      +/-     State First = Fiasco

The TamilNadu government’s policy in selecting top scorers in the Plus two examinations is arbitrary and biased. It is bigotry to select only those students who took Tamil as their first language in the exams.

Year after year the "State First" students on record have scored less than the "actual" top scorers. The psychological impact on students who did not choose Tamil as their first language can not be quantified. Why provide other languages as part of the examinations when students who took them are not be eligible to be a rank holder? And the government’s gesture in providing monitory assistance to the first three rank holders who took Tamil as their first language is a discrimination based on language which negates “Right to equality” of our constitution.

3 comments:

Pistu said...

Are you sure it is the first language or did u mean second language?? I wasnt even in top 20 in my class so didnt worry abt the requirements :) neways if it is second language I think they should be based on it coz ppl who take french take 200/200 whereas the minimum a tamil student can get is around 190..

Sriram Varadharajan said...

Pistu,
No matter what the language is, the "state topper" selection should be based on the total marks.

Pistu said...

naan ellam pass pannade periya vishyam soo adanala ida patthi no comments :)