VELLORE: The Vaniyambadi-based Urdu Protection Committee Tamil Nadu Trust has appealed to the State to exempt minority students with Urdu as their mother tongue from the purview of the Tamil Nadu Tamil Learning Act, 2006. .
District joint secretary of the trust T Basheeruddin said, the trust discussed the direction of the director of the school education concerning Urdu medium students, who are in Class IX this year and would be in Class X next year, to learn Tamil. The members also urged the State to roll back the direction. A resolution urging the State to allow Urdu schools in the State to teach Urdu as first language by exempting them from Tamil Learning Act 2006 was also passed, he added.