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- Between 2014–15 and 2024–25, the union government spent Rs 2,532.59 crore on promoting Sanskrit.
- Only Rs 147.56 crore spent in total for the promotion of the other five classical languages combined, including Tamil.
- The allocation for Tamil alone was Rs 113.48 crore.
- Kannada and Telugu have each received less than 0.5%, and Odia and Malayalam each received under 0.2% of Sanskrit’s total allocation.
- The combined funding of the remaining four Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, and Odia, which received the classical language status between 2008 and 2014, was ₹34.08 crore.
- The combined funding for Hindi, Urdu and Sindhi between 2014-15 and 2024-25 was ₹1,317.96 crore.
- According to the 2011 census, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Odia, and Kannada speakers together accounted for 21.99% of India’s total population of 1.2 billion.
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