<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="">Consider retrospective recognition for English-medium school: HC </h1>



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In another setback to the State government, the High Court of Karnataka 
on Tuesday directed the authorities to process an application seeking 
recognition as an English-medium school, from classes one to five, with 
retrospective effect from the year in which an educational institution 
had first applied for it. Justice A.S. Bopanna passed the order while 
disposing of a petition filed by Kannada Nuthana Vidya Samsthe, Tarikere
 in Chikkamagaluru district. </p>
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The court made it clear that the government should process the 
application for grant of recognition for English-medium school from the 
academic year 2009–10 as the petitioner-institute had filed its first 
application for English medium in October 2008. </p>
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<b>In six weeks</b><br></p>
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Also, the court directed the government to process application for 
English medium within six weeks based on the infrastructure required in 
the year the institution had applied for recognition.
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Initially, the government refused to grant permission citing that the 
State’s language policy does not permit English-medium school. The 
permission was denied in 2009 again even after the High Court’s Full 
Bench verdict of quashing the language policy. </p>
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Later, the petitioner-school approached the High Court against denial of
 recognition and the court issued specific direction to the State to 
consider the plea for recognition. The authorities, however, failed to 
adhere to the direction for the reason that appeal against the High 
Court’s verdict was pending in the Supreme Court. However, the school 
was operating in terms of the apex court’s direction to the State not to
 close down “unrecognised English-medium schools” till the appeal was 
decided.
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The government, in June this year, again refused to consider the plea 
even though the apex court in May declared the State’s language policy 
as “unconstitutional”. <br></p><p class=""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/consider-retrospective-recognition-for-englishmedium-school-hc/article6655897.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/consider-retrospective-recognition-for-englishmedium-school-hc/article6655897.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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