chennai chief minister m k stalin on tuesday told officials to take up measures for development of tamil and new initiatives and modern technologies to spread the use of tamil among tamils living abroad and other stateshe was speaking at a review meeting with tamil development and information department the chief minister reviewed the activities including creation of new words for higher education including technical education observing october 12 as classical tamil language day the day when the union government issued a notification declaring tamil as a classical language in 2004 urging the centre to announce thirukkural as a national book setting up tamil chairs in worldrenowned universities and increase the use of tamil language in central government offices and banks an official release saidthe meeting also saw discussion on setting up a conference hall with a seating capacity of 800 in mgr film and television institute a new digital library a museum and audiovisual programmes in memorials discussion was also held on details of release of the chief ministers programmes government schemes awareness programmes achievements welfare assistancerelated reports and short films in social media the release said