The Madras High Court as an interim measure today directed Tamil Nadu government to exempt tenth standard students having mother tongue other than Tamil from writing Part I Tamil language exam.
"We have no option but for the time being to exempt all the candidates who had sought exemption from taking the Tamil examination," the First Bench, comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M. Sathyanarayanan before which several petitions filed by various educational Institutions came up again, said.
The matter relates to making it compulsory for Xth standard students to write Tamil examination in March 2016.
The First bench had earlier directed students and their parents to approach the authorities concerned by way of letters seeking exemption from writing Part-I exams in Tamil.
About 8000 applications were made to authorities to allow them to write the Part I exam in their mother tongue, which were all rejected by the authorities.
Hence, the petitioners approached the court by way of miscellaneous petitions seeking an interim injunction restraining the government from making it compulsory till a decision was arrived at on the writ petitions.
As the annual examinations are scheduled to be conducted in March and considering the paucity of time, the bench as an interim measure directed the government to exempt the students from writing the Part-I Tamil language exam.
