Tamil Nadu Tamil & English Schools Association (Regd. No. 17/94) No. 5, M. P. Avenue, Majestic Colony, Saligramam, Madras 93. , rep. by its General Secretary, Mr. B. T. Kumar vs The State of Tamil Nadu rep. by its Secretary to Government School Education Department, Fort St. George, Chennai 600 009 and two others

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2000 Supreme(Mad) 462

N.DHINAKAR, A.S.VENKATACHALA MOORTHY, S.JAGADEESAN
Tamil Nadu Tamil & English Schools Association (Regd. No. 17/94) No. 5, M. P. Avenue, Majestic Colony, Saligramam, Madras 93. , rep. by its General Secretary, Mr. B. T. Kumar – Appellant
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The State of Tamil Nadu rep. by its Secretary to Government School Education Department, Fort St. George, Chennai 600 009 and two others – Respondent

Advocates:
Mr. U.N.R. Rao, Senior Counsel for Mr. P. Chandrasekaran; Mr. N.R. Chandran, Senior Counsel for Mr. R. Suresh Kumar; Mr. R. Krishnamurthi, Senior Counsel for Mr. R. Muthukumarasamy; Mr. K.M. Vijayan, Senior Counsel for M/s. Law and Law; Mr. Habibullah Badsha, Senior Counsel for Mr. K. Ilias Ali; Mr. A.L. Somayaji, Senior Counsel for Mr. K. Ilias Ali; Mrs. Nalini Chidambaram, Senior Counsel for Mr. M. Mohamed Rafi; Mr. MA. Sadanand for M/s. Paul and Paul; Mr. G.S. Thambi for Mr. Isaac Mohanlal; Mr. K. Duraisami, Senior Counsel for M/s. Muthumani Duraisami; Mr. P. Surya Prakasam; Mr. V. Prakash; Mr. D.Krishna Kumar; Mr. N. Paul Vasanthakumar; Mr. V. Raghavachari; Mr. A.V. Ilango; Mr. N.C. Ramesh; Mr. J.M. Dharma Sanjeevi; Mr. K.P. Padmanabhan; Mr. M.M. Sundaresh; M/s. Jaya Ganesh; Mr. V. Bhiman; Mrs. G. Thilagavathi; Mr. N.S. Manoharan; Mr. V. Manivasakam; Mr. M.S. Palaniswamy; Mr. K.S. Selvarangan; Mr. K. Shanmugakani; Mr. A.J. Jawad; Mr. C. Johnson; Mr. S. Subramanian, Advocate for Petitioner. Mr. Shanti Bhushan, Senior Counsel Supreme Court of India; Mr. R. Mohan, Senior Counsel Supreme Court of India; Mr. T.R. Rajagopalan, AdditionalAdvocate General; Mr. M. Kanadasamy, Special Government Pleader for Respondents. Mr. K. Chandru, Senior Counsel (for impleaded Respondens)

Judgment :-

A.S. Venkatachalamoorthy, J.

1. The State of Tamil Nadu passed G.O.Ms. No. 6 (School Education C2 Department), dated 11. 1999, to the effect that from the academic year 1999.2000 all the nursery and elementary Schools shall teach at least two out of three subjects i.e. Social Studies (History and Geography) Mathematics and Science through the medium of Tamil, apart from teaching Tamil as a subject. The Government Order imposed some more conditions and announced certain concessions. It is necessary that the English translation of the said Government Order, as furnished by the State has to be quoted:

GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU ABSTRACT Elementary Education-Tamil as Medium of Instruction in Nursery and Elementary Schools-Implementation/Orders Issued. SCHOOL EDUCATION, (C2) DEPARTMENT G.O.Ms. No. 6 Dated: l3.l.1999 Read:

1. Letter (Ms.) No. 377, School Education, dated 28. 1997

2. G.O.(Ms.) No. 421, School Education, dated 211. 1998

ORDER

The following orders are issued in continuation of the orders issued in G.O.Ms. No. 421, School

Education Department, dated 11. 1998.

1. The Government direct that from the academic year 1999-2000, at least two out of three subjects

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