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<h2>Private educational institution had questioned government’s attempt to permit only private Kannada-medium primary schools </h2>
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<p class=""> The State’s “indirect” attempt to prevent permission to
start English-medium primary schools has received a setback with the
High Court of Karnataka directing the government to receive application
from a private educational institution in this regard.</p><p class="">Justice
A.S. Bopanna passed the interim order on a petition filed by Modern
Education Society, Ejipura, Bengaluru. The society had questioned the
State government’s November 11 notification, which “indirectly” made an
attempt to permit only private Kannada-medium primary schools from
classes 1 to 5 for 2015-16.</p><p class="">G.R. Mohan, counsel for
the petitioner-society, had contended that the government had adopted an
“indirect” way to “frustrate” the Supreme Court’s verdict of May this
year, in which the government’s 1994 language policy of the State was
declared “unconstitutional”. </p><p class="">The language policy had
made it mandatory for all schools in the State to impart education only
in mother tongue or Kannada from classes 1 to 5.</p><p class="">Meanwhile,
in response to the High Court’s notice, it was submitted on behalf of
the government that the Education Department did not include the receipt
of application for classes 1 to 5 for English-medium schools due to a
decision taken by the State Cabinet to file a Curative Petition before
the Supreme Court seeking relook into the verdict on its language
policy.</p><p class="">However, Justice Bopanna observed that “…at
present the decision rendered by the Supreme Court would permit the
choice of the language to the parents,” while directing the authorities
to receive application filed by the society seeking permission to start
English-medium schools for classes 1 to 5 with a similar fee as has been
fixed in respect of the Kannada-medium schools.</p><p class=""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/high-court-order-a-setback-for-state/article6637148.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/high-court-order-a-setback-for-state/article6637148.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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