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<p class="">With the pleas on State government’s contentious 1994
language policy scheduled to come up for hearing before the
Constitutional bench of the Supreme Court next week, the Department of
Primary and Secondary Education on Thursday held a meeting with
academicians, writers and senior officials to chalk out legal strategy
to defend its policy on medium of instruction. </p><p class="">Majority
of the participants in the meeting favoured State’s language policy of
1994, which has made the medium of instruction from class one to class
four should be in Kannada or child’s mother tongue. </p><p class="">Talking
to reporters after the meeting, Mukhyamanthri Chandru, Chairman,
Kannada Development Authority said, “It would not be proper to make
students of Government schools study in Kannada medium and those
studying in private schools to pursue education in English medium as
private schools impart education in English medium in view of High
Court’s verdict.”</p><p class="">Mr. Chandru also emphasised the need for the government to evolve a national policy on medium of instruction.</p><p class="">Echoing Mr. Chandru’s views writer Bargur Ramachandrappa also favoured State’s 1994 policy.</p>
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to presspersons after the deliberations, Minister of State for Primary
and Secondary Education, Kimmane Ratnakar said the department has
requested those who attended the meeting to give their views in writing
so that it would help the State Advocate General defend the policy
before the Apex Court. </p><p class="">The Karnataka High Court in
its 2008 verdict had quashed the language policy and said the government
could not compel students studying in private schools to study in the
mother tongue or regional language as it was violation of Articles 19
(1) (g), 26 and 30 (1) of the Constitution. The appeal filed by the
State against this verdict is pending adjudication before the Supreme
Court.</p>
<div id="articleKeywords"><p>Keywords: <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/writers-and-academicians-favour-1994-language-policy/article5583308.ece#">Karnataka government language policy 1994</a>, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/writers-and-academicians-favour-1994-language-policy/article5583308.ece#">medium of instruction</a>, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/writers-and-academicians-favour-1994-language-policy/article5583308.ece#">Kannada Development Authority</a></p>
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