State Of Play: What’s Tamil Nadu’s problem with NEP and South’s issue with UGC?

In a show of unity, the Southern states of Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala have decided to fight a legal battle against the Modi government’s UGC Draft Guidelines together.

This even as Tamil Nadu is taking on the Union government over NEP 2020.

On State Of Play, South First‘s Editor Anusha Ravi Sood has data on why Centre has much to learn from Southern States on providing quality education and how Hindi imposition is a reality even when NEP doesn’t make it mandatory on paper