Chennai: Tamilnadu government has refuted reports that there were ‘discreet’ attempts to opt for the three-language system.

Tamilnadu will continue to follow only the two-language system, comprising Tamil and English, and there was no move to shift to the three-language formula, the School Education Commissioner has said.

Refuting reports in a section of media that there were ‘discreet’ attempts to opt for the three-language system, an official release said, ‘Tamilnadu has made its language policy clear on many occasions.’

‘Tamil, which is the mother tongue, and the global-link language English have been in vogue (in the State) as per the two-language formula,’ the Commissioner said in a statement.

According to a 2006 Act, learning Tamil is compulsory till Class X while students whose mother tongue was Telugu or Malayalam or Kannada or Urdu can learn their respective language also, it said.

Both the Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu, the ruling DMK and its rival AIADMK, who have ruled the State since 1967 at different times, are opposed to the implementation of the three-language formula in the State, saying Tamil and English would suffice and there was no need for a third one – Hindi.