<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="">Language policy: Karnataka set to file review petition in SC</h1>
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(From left) Advocate-General Ravivarma Kumar, Law Minister T.B.
Jayachandra, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and the former Lokayukta N.
Santosh Hegde during a meeting on the language policy in Bangalore on
Tuesday. Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy
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<h3 class=""> <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/topics/?categoryId=144"> Karnataka</a> </h3>
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<p class=""> The State government on Tuesday decided to file a
review petition against the Supreme Court’s recent verdict on the medium
of instruction in primary schools.</p><p class="">The Supreme
Court, on May 6, quashed the Karnataka government’s 1994 language policy
making mother tongue or Kannada the compulsory medium of instruction in
primary schools. </p><p class="">Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who
chaired a meeting of legal experts and officials on Tuesday, said the
review petition would be filed by June 5 as it had to be done within a
month after the verdict.</p><p class="">He told presspersons after
the meeting that the State had only two legal options. If the review
petition was not considered, the government would file a curative
petition, he said.</p><p class="">Mr. Siddaramaiah said he would
also write to all Chief Ministers in the country seeking their support
to ensure that mother tongue was made the medium of instruction in the
country.</p><p class="">“Besides the review and curative petitions,
the only other option is an amendment to the Constitution, making mother
tongue the compulsory medium of instruction. We will appeal to the
Centre for the Constitutional amendment,” he said.</p><p class="">Other
members who attended the meeting said the government was not keen on
amending the Right to Education Act and enacting a separate legislation
making Kannada the compulsory medium of instruction in primary schools.
The plan was dropped as legal experts had raised doubts that such an
amendment may not stand the legal scrutiny, if challenged in the apex
court, one of the members said.</p><p class="">Law Minister T.B.
Jayachandra said the government had not yet decided whether or not to
change the members of the legal team that was representing Karnataka in
the Supreme Court. Apart from Mr. Jayachandra, the former Lokayukta N.
Santosh Hegde, Minister for State for Primary and Secondary Education
Kimmane Ratnakar, Minister of State for Kannada and Culture Umashree and
Advocate-General Ravivarma Kumar attended the meeting.</p>
<div id="articleKeywords"><p>Keywords: <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/language-policy-karnataka-set-to-file-review-petition-in-sc/article6030305.ece#">Kannada</a>, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/language-policy-karnataka-set-to-file-review-petition-in-sc/article6030305.ece#">primary language in schools</a>, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/language-policy-karnataka-set-to-file-review-petition-in-sc/article6030305.ece#">Kannada as primary language</a>, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/language-policy-karnataka-set-to-file-review-petition-in-sc/article6030305.ece#">SC language policy</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/language-policy-karnataka-set-to-file-review-petition-in-sc/article6030305.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/language-policy-karnataka-set-to-file-review-petition-in-sc/article6030305.ece</a><br>
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