NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, NOV 30
Slowly and steadily the Centre is thrusting Hindi in Tamil Nadu hurting their sentiments. They have been using the Southern Railway as a tool to promote Hindi.
One glaring example was that Tiruppur railway station under the Southern railway had installed Hindi signage ‘Sahyog’ instead of ‘Sevai Mayyam’ in Tamil.
'திருப்பூர் ரயில் நிலையத்தில் உள்ள சேவை மையத்திற்கு சகயோக் என்று இந்தியில் ஒட்டப்பட்ட ஸ்டிக்கர் அகற்றம்'
இந்தித் திணிப்புக்கு இங்கு இடமில்லை…#StopHindiImposition pic.twitter.com/9bbsUzWgvI
— Tiruppur Selvaraj (@Tupkselvaraj) November 29, 2022
The signage was removed on Tuesday following protests by the public as well as many political parties. The issue cropped up after signage ‘Sahyog’ in Hindi and the same words in Tamil and English came up at the Tiruppur railway station. There were complaints from the passengers that the English and Tamil versions were transliterations of the Hindi word and people could not understand them.
திருப்பூர்தொடர்வண்டி நிலையத்தில் உள்ள சேவை மையத்தின் முகப்பில் வைக்கப்பட்டிருந்த சேவை மையம் பெயர்ப்பலகை அகற்றப்பட்டு, அதற்கு மாற்றாக சகயோக் என்று இந்தி, ஆங்கிலம், தமிழ் ஆகிய மொழிகளில் எழுதப்பட்டிருக்கிறது. மத்திய அரசின் அப்பட்டமான இந்த இந்தித் திணிப்பு கண்டிக்கத்தக்கது!(1/4) pic.twitter.com/KFS3Udcg4y
— Dr S RAMADOSS (@drramadoss) November 29, 2022
It may be recalled that instead of Sahyog, it was ‘Sevai Mayyam’ in Tamil and ‘Information Centre’ in English that was written as signage and it was easier for people to understand the meaning.
The political arm of the powerful Vanniyar community, the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) had come out strongly against the Railways bringing out the signage in only Hindi. Dr. S. Ramadoss, the founder leader of PMK said that this was a move intended at imposing Hindi in Tamil Nadu.
Southern Railway authorities when contacted said that the signage was put up in Hindi as there were a large number of guest workers working in the industrial areas of Tiruppur. However, the PMK local leaders said that this was a “bogey as a majority of passengers frequenting the station were local Tamil people”.
Now the signage has Tamil, English, and Hindi words that could be properly understood by the people
