Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Requested Prime Minister to Include Master degree in Tamil

K Palaniswami, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has requested the Prime Minister to include a Master’s degree in Tamil language for students seeking admission to the PG Diploma course in Archaeology. 

According to the advertisement released by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), under the Union Culture Ministry, a new 2-year PG Diploma course in Archaeology has been introduced.

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Students can seek this program from Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay Institute of Archaeology in languages such as Sanskrit, Pali, Persian, Prakrit and Arabic among others. However Tamil language is excluded from the list.

Institutes under ASI were inaugurated by the Prime Minister in 2019.

Tamil Nadu chief minister pointed out, “The Tamil language was the first language to be declared as the classical language in 2004 and yet it is completely ignored in the admission criteria”.

He further added, “Such exclusion works as a barrier for the students from Tamil Nadu and restricts their growth.

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It should be noted that Sanskrit was declared as the classical language in 2005 and was the only classical language included in the list of minimum qualifications for Masters in Archaeology.

A total of 48,000 inscriptions are present in all the languages that have been recognized by ASI and out of which more than 28,000 inscriptions are present in Tamil alone.

K Palaniswami has requested the prime minister to get the guidelines and advertisement amended by ASI by including Tamil language as one of the minimum qualifications for doing PG Diploma in Archaeology.

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