On Monday (June 9, 2025), the Supreme Court refused to deliver urgent hearing for a lawsuit filed by Tamil Nadu’s government against the center for alleged detainment of more than 2,151 Crore in the Central Educational Funds. | Photo Credit: Hind
On Monday (June 9, 2025), the Supreme Court rejected the oral action Tamil over the urgent statement of its original suit, which criticized the center of stopping the annual share of key education funds in the melody of more than 2000 Crore as part of the Samagra Shiksha system.
In the case of a holiday headed by Justice Prashant Kumar Misra, she found no urgency.
Senior Advocate P Wilson, who mentioned the action, said that the lack of funds would have an impact on the future of nearly 48 Lakh’s students in the state and the academic year began on June 3
“Since when were the funds deprived?” The judiciary of Mishhra asked.
“The funds were not provided last year. We filed a lawsuit on May 20, 2025,” Wilson said.
“No urgency,” said justice Misra.
The lawsuit made by advocates Richardson Wilson and the Apoorv Malhotra said that the “glaring and apparent reason” for non-avoiding the Samagra Shiksha funds is associated with the loud opposition of the state with the imposition of national educational policy (NEP) 2020 and Nep-Hhri Shri Shri. The Scheme of PM Shri schools orders the implementation of the NEP-2020 in its entirety in the state.
The suit, filed through the State Advisor Tamil Nadu Sabarish Subramanian, said the Samagra Shiksha system was not in any way associated with the NEP-2020 and PM Shri Schools’.
“The Union Government by the Withholding The State’s Entitlement to Receive Funds Under the Samagra Shiksha Scheme is Ignorance of the Doctrine of Cooperative Federalism. The Halt of Education Funds Amounts to the USURPATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL POWER OF THE STATE TO LEGISLATE UNDER ENTRY 25, List III. The Union Government Seeks to Coerce and Force the State to the Implement the Nep-2020 Throughout The State in Its Entirets and To Deviarate From the Educational Regime, ”he said.
The uniform refusal of the Center to provide educational funds was “obvious dictat” for implementing the NEP-2020 and the connection of the Samagra Shiksha system with the program of schools PM Shri.
Failure to share a 60% share in the Samagra Shiksha system for Tamil Nadu for 2025–2026, which approved the project Council, seriously affected the Samagra Shiksha system and the introduction of the RTE law, 2009 and 32,701 employees.
The Council assigned a total of 3585.99 CR as the total expenditure on the Samagra Shiksha expenses.
The state was looking for a judicial statement that the NEP-2020 and PM SHRI system were not binding on Tamil. He called on the court to declare the connection of the state claim to obtain a central share in the Educational Funds within the Samagra Shiksha system with the overall performance of the NEP-2020 Shri Shri Shri Shri Shri Shri Shri “Unconstination, illegal, arbitrary and disproportionate”. The suit wanted the center to pay Rs. 2291 CRORE CRORE in a specified APEX court together with 6% interest annually from the main amount of 1 May 2025 until the date of implementation of the Decree.
Tamil Nadu said that the Chief Minister of MK Stalin wrote to the Prime Minister, who raised objections to the interconnection of the Samagra Shiksha scheme with a complete implementation of the NEP-2020 and PM Shri Schools and sought his intervention for the release of the educational funds. Mr. Stalin said that the link was “fundamentally unacceptable” and made pressure tactics to force the state to accept centrally authorized programs against their own state politicians in obvious violations of cooperative federalism. The Union’s government rejected CM concerns, the action said.
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The state said that he constantly opposed the formula of three languages under Nep. In fact, the State Legislative Assembly adopted a resolution in January 1968 rejected the official Language Act (amendment) of 1967 and the corresponding resolution approved by the parliament.
“This state resolution called for a three -book pattern and ordered that only Tamil and English were taught in schools across Tamil, and Hindi is excluded from the curriculum.
The state claimed that the provisions of 4.13 NEP-2020 recommend a three language formula in all states “under the veil of multilingualism”.
“The state has recognized legal regulations that are properly adapted to the policy of two languages it imagines. Goise from the provision of financial support,” Tamil stressed.
Published – 9 June 2025 12:04
