<div dir="ltr"><div class=""><h1>India's Supreme Court lets primary schools to choose language policy – report</h1></div><div class=""><h5 class=""><br></h5></div><div class=""><a><img src="http://rapsinews.com/images/26688/50/266885003.jpg" title="Supreme Court of India " height="203" width="360"></a></div>
<div class="" id="copyright">© RIA Novosti</div><div class=""><span>Tags: </span><a href="http://rapsinews.com/tags/tag_Education/">Education</a>, <a href="http://rapsinews.com/tags/tag_Legislation/">Legislation</a>, <a href="http://rapsinews.com/tags/tag_India/">India</a></div>
<div class=""><em class="">13:08 07/05/2014</em> <p><strong>MOSCOW, May 7 (RAPSI) -</strong>
The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday ruled against government
dictating the primary schools’ language policy, The Indian Express
reported.</p>
<p>Constitution Bench of the court ruled that: “State has no power to
compel linguistic minority to impart primary education by compulsorily
imposing regional language,” as cited by the The Hindu.</p>
<p>According to The Times of India, State would still be able to set
mother tongue as official language in government and government-aided
primary schools, while private schools as well as religious minority
ones are protected by the Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution which
guarantees freedom of expression.</p>
<p>In 1994 Indian state of Karnataka ordered to impose state’s mother
tongue Kannada as mandatory language for the primary schools. This
decision sparked a controversy in Indian society. Two-judge bench of
Supreme Court decided that this case should be considered by a larger
panel because of its great significance for the future of India, The
Hindu reports.</p><p><a href="http://rapsinews.com/legislation/20140507/271269894.html">http://rapsinews.com/legislation/20140507/271269894.html</a><br></p><p><br></p></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>**************************************<br>
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