<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="">Private schools to step up pressure on government<span class="">Tanu Kulkarni</span>
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<h2>HC has directed the govt. to receive application from a private institution to start English-medium primary school</h2>
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<p class=""> Following the High Court of Karnataka’s direction to
the State government to receive application from a private school to
start English medium primary school, other private schools have decided
to step up pressure on the government to register the existing Kannada
schools as English schools.</p><p class="">However, with the
government set to file a curative petition in the Supreme Court — which
had quashed the State’s language policy of 1994 making regional
language/mother tongue the compulsory medium of instruction — there
remains uncertainty over how the State would respond to these
applications. In effect, school associations pointed out that the
question was whether or not the State would implement the High Court’s
ruling in spirit.</p><p class="">Mohammad Mohsin, Commissioner,
Public Instruction, said each school would have to submit individual
applications and they would be reviewed in consultation with the
government. </p><p class="">Karnataka Unaided School Management’s
Association (KUSMA) submitted a request to the Department of Public
Instruction last month to register more than 1,300 schools imparting
classes in English medium but had permission to conduct only
Kannada-medium classes. “We will submit fresh applications by the
month-end. If the government fails to accept them in a week, we will
move a contempt petition,” said KUSMA advocate K.V. Dhananjay.</p><p class="">With
the language policy stuck in courts for two decades, many State board
schools are registered as Kannada-medium schools but impart lessons in
English.</p><p class=""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/private-schools-to-step-up-pressure-on-government/article6640704.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/private-schools-to-step-up-pressure-on-government/article6640704.ece</a><br></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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