Government of Tamil Nadu has drawn up fresh plans to collaborate with the SSA and The British council in providing English language teacher training for all state across standards VI – VIII. This would be in addition to the English language project already underway for the V standard for which 60,000 teachers have already trained up (training for the next 60,000 will be undertaken this year). Tamil Nadu is finally starting to eschew the archaic and ineffective approach to language teaching that has prevailed for so long. The English language is a tie that helps to bind the many segments of our society together. It is also a linguistic bridge between the major countries of the world and India. Keywords: Calcutta University Commission, technical education, archaic and ineffective approach, Bilingual Education Programme