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<p class=""> Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education
Kimmane Ratnakar said here on Saturday that the government would
announce a new language policy for education in two months.</p><p class="">He told presspersons that a meeting would be held on December 4 wherein the Advocate-General and others would participate. </p><p class="">He
clarified that the government would not give permission to any
institution to open English-medium schools till the new policy was
unveiled.</p><p class="">The Minister said the government was
studying the language policies of neighbouring States, and Chief
Minister Siddaramaiah had written to his counterparts there on this.</p><p class="">The
State government had no option but to announce a language policy in
view of the recent High Court direction to it to accept an application
for opening an English-medium school and the Supreme Court ruling,
saying parents had the right to choose the medium of instruction for
their children. </p><p class="">He said at a seminar on education
that the Constitution should be amended so that a uniform language
policy was followed all over the country.</p><p class="">Later, the
Minister took part in an interactive programme, organised by the
city-based Samadarshi Vedike that demanded, among others, that primacy
be given to mother tongue as the medium of instruction as that was the
most effective way of learning. The Minister reiterated that the
government would recruit over 16,000 teachers by June.</p><p class=""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/new-language-policy-in-karnataka-in-2-months/article6647170.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/new-language-policy-in-karnataka-in-2-months/article6647170.ece</a><br></p><p class=""><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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