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2. Apart from this, Tamil Scholars have now made the following repre-sentations including introduction of Tamil Medium of Instruction in the Departments of Higher Education, such as Medical. Engineering, Law and Technologies and to give priority in employment to those who studied through Tamil Medium of Instruction.

1. All educational institutions in Tamil Nadu should have only Tamil as the medium of instruction upto V Standard. From VI Standard onwards, English should be taught only as a language subject at all levels.

C. The impugned Government Order which prohibits English from being the medium of instructions and which compels to adopt mother tongue or Tamil alone as the medium of instructions from Standard I to V with no choice to the parents to educate his children is per se arbitrary and violative of Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India;
D. The impugned Government order which appears to compel Tamil alone to be the medium of instruction is clearly violative/ of Articles 14 and 26 of the Constitution of India, besides Article 30 in the case of a minority institution.
V. The impugned Government Order is illegal and arbitrary since it proceeds on misconception of law that the Supreme Court has upheld the question relating to the medium of Instruction in the case reported in English Medium Students Parents' Association v. The State of Karnataka, , which in fact is not one dealing with the medium of instruction, but one dealing with the introduction of a language to be a subject.
W. The impugned order which seeks to compel to have mother-tongue as the medium of instruction and which prohibits English from being adopted as the medium of instruction is violative of the fundamental right of expression, guaranteed under Article 19(1)(a) and not saved by Article 19(2) of the Constitution of India and therefore liable to be struck down.
12 A. Matriculation Schools: Coming to the Matriculation Schools, these schools teach classes from Standards I to XII. Some of Schools in fact started functioning sometime in 1950 or so. The medium of instruction in these Schools has been English. As on 1977, there were 29 Schools in the jurisdiction of Madras University and one in the jurisdiction of Madras-Kamaraj University. All these Schools are fee-levying and the medium of instruction in all these Schools has been English. The Schools were under the control of the University and examinations were then conducted by the University. The Madras University at its meeting of the Syndicate in August, 1975 proposed that all Matriculation Schools which are under the control of Tamil Nadu State Government be transferred to the Government Department of School Education, on the ground that the University should concern itself with higher education and it should bear no responsibility to run the Schools. The Government considering the great importance of the matter convened a meeting of the management of the Matriculation Schools with Government and University on 19.7.1976 and in the meeting it was decided that the Government will appoint a Director of Matriculation Schools who will be advised by a Board of Matriculation School and the said Director would take over the control of all these Schools and that the Schools will continue to be fee based and also continue to use English as medium of instruction. The schools were given liberty to innovate with regard to their curriculum except for the last two years. It was also decided that Matriculation Schools be encouraged to start the Higher Secondary Course viz.. Standards XI and XII under the supervision of the Board of Higher Secondary Education. These proposals were communicated to the Syndicate, which also approved the same. The Government also considered the proposal and passed Orders, forming a separate Board of Matriculation Schools in G.O.Ms.No.2816 (School Education Department), dated 29th December, 1976. Subsequently, the Government passed another G.O.Ms.No.1720 (Education Department), dated 25.7.1977, in and by which the Government constituted a Board for the Matriculation Schools and further directed that the Board be constituted with the members mentioned in the said Government Order. According to the said Government-Order, the Director, School Education shall be the Chairman and three officials of the Education Department to be Ex-officio members. Apart from them, two members to represent the University three members each on behalf of managements Heads of Schools, teachers and interested persons. The said Government Order spells out in detail the various conditions of membership, functions etc., The said G.O.1720 dated 25.7.1977 is still in force. In 1980 the Government also framed a code for Matriculation Schools and according to clause 7 the schools continue to be fee-based and use English as medium of instruction. Thus since 1950 English has been the medium of instruction in Matriculation schools. During 1976, as already mentioned there were only 30 Schools which went upto 200 or so in 1987., 1000 in 1992 and 2000 as on date. Now, the impugned G.O. viz., G.O.Ms.No.324, dated 19.11.1999 directs all Schools to switch over to Tamil/mother-tongue as medium of instruction for Standards I to V.