<br clear="all">HC to schools: Abide by govt's Kannada policy<img src="http://images.photogallery.indiatimes.com/images/spacer.gif" width="10" border="0"><br><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9px; COLOR: #555555; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 01:51:38 pm<br></span><br>
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<div class="Normal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><img title="/photo.cms?msid=2086077" alt="/photo.cms?msid=2086077" src="http://www.timesnow.tv/photo.cms?msid=2086077" align="left" border="0"> In what will affect the future of thousands of students in Karnataka, the state High Court in a vindication of the government's stand has given an ultimatum to Kannada schools to switch back to Kannada as a medium of instruction, and file an affidavit before Friday (June 1) stating they will abide by the government's language policy. The issue has become a bone of contention between the state government and the Kannada schools. The state government wants all Kannada medium schools using English as the medium of instruction to switch back to the Kannada medium.
<br><br>The latest court order affects 6,000 schools. The last time, around the court had stayed the government's decision to change the medium of instruction from English to Kannada in primary schools, and had even told the schools to start admissions while informing the parents. With the latest court ruling these schools have now decided to approach the Divisions Bench to have the order revoked. But if their efforts fail, the Kannada schools will have to bow down to the state and abide by the High Court's decision with immediate effect, in the upcoming academic session itself. This could adversely affect thousands of students, as many of the schools are infrastructurally ill-equipped to make a sudden switch in language of instruction. In this context they have termed the government's order 'unconstitutional', and observe that the High Court has not provided for the consequences of this judgement.
<br><br>Said Manjunath Swami Hiremath – counsel for the school management, "The respective counsels appearing for the petitioners have made a submission to the learned single judge that without consulting the respective managements they cannot file an affidavit. But inspite of the submission, the court has taken a u-turn and given a direction to file a personal affidavit for each management, on or before June 1 stating that they are ready to impart education in Kannada medium."
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