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<td width="50%"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong><small><small>SOUTHERN NEWS - KARNATAKA</small></small></strong></font></td>
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<p align="right"><font face="Verdana" color="#9b0000" size="1"><strong>Jul 28, 2007</strong></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table></center></div></td></tr>
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<td width="100%"><font face="Arial" color="black"><small><strong>Special teams to check language policy</strong></small></font><br><font face="Verdana" color="#808080" size="1">Friday July 27 2007 13:08 IST</font>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><small><font face="Verdana">DAVANAGERE: The Education Department has formed five special squads to check the violation of language policy in Kannada medium schools, apart from each taluk BEO forming their own team to visit village schools.
<br>According to sources of the department, two special squads in Davangere north and south zone will visit different schools to check the medium of instruction and another squad will tour Harihar. The district has 263 private schools, among which 28 schools lost their recognition in 2006 for violating the language
policy.Out of 28 derecognised schools, 20 schools were rerecognised by paying the fine. Eight schools that failed to pay the fine were derecognised, officials said.<br><br>If any private school is found violating the language policy during the squad visit, stringent action would be initiated, an officer said.
<br>Meanwhile, parents have complained that in some schools the managements are distributing English books despite taking classes in Kannada medium.</font></small></p></td></tr></tbody></table></center></div><br clear="all">
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