Special provisions regarding other State-Linguistic Minorities

Special provisions regarding other State-Linguistic Minorities.—Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 5 or Section 6,—

1. (1) The Tamil and Kannada linguistic minorities in the State may use their languages for their correspondence with the State Government Secretariat, Heads of Department and all local offices of the State Government situated in those areas declared by the Government to be linguistic minority areas for the purpose and replies send in such case shall be in their respective minority languages.
2. (2) Students, whose mother tongue is any language other than Malayalam may choose languages of their choice and are available in the schools of the State in accordance with the National Education Curriculum.
3. (3) With respect to students who come from other States and foreign countries to Kerala for studying, it is not compulsory to write the Malayalam examination in IXth Standard, Xth Standard and Higher Secondary Level.