Chennai, Feb. 20 -- Hitting out at the Centre for coercing the State to adopt centrally
mandated programs against its own time-tested State policies was a blatant violation of
cooperative federalism, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday urged Prime
Minister Narendra Modi to release Rs 2,152 crore without linking it to the implementation
of NEP and three-language policy in the interest of cooperative federalism and welfare
of lakhs of students and teachers.
In a Demi-Official letter to Mr Modi, copies of which were released to the media here,
he expressed deep concern over Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's
remarks that funds would not be released till the State implemented the NEP-2020 in
toto and adopts the ...