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Encourage study of French, Government told

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Schools `putting hurdles in the way of students'

PONDICHERRY: The Pondicherry-based Sarvodaya Thalaivar S. R. Subamaniam Narpani Iyakkam has called upon the Administration to initiate steps to ensure that learning of French in privately managed higher secondary schools in the Union Territory.

General Secretary of the Iyakkam S.Bascarane has said that Pondicherry has been preserving its French culture and the issue of birth, death and other legal documents in French language continued even today without break. But this would change unless the study of French was encouraged in school.

He said that managements of private schools were conducting an "entrance test" before letting students take French language as a language subject (instead of Tamil or other languages) in higher secondary courses. This was dampening the enthusiasm of the students. This had led to a fall in the number of students who knew French. Students taking French as a second language scored higher marks and therefore students should be encouraged to do so.

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