<div dir="ltr"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans',Lora,Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:20px">Sirsi: KUSMA warns govt</b><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans',Lora,Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans',Lora,Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans',Lora,Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:20px">Sirsi: "Following the Supreme Court verdict on language policy, the problems revolving around the medium of instruction issue will be solved in another two months. In case, the government authorities refuse registration to unaided English medium schools coming under Karnataka Unaided Schools Management Association in the pretext of the language policy, they may have to go to jail and face contempt of court proceedings", warned Karnataka Unaided Schools Management Association (KUSMA) President V R N Reddy and Legal Advisor K V Dhananjay.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans',Lora,Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans',Lora,Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans',Lora,Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:20px">Speaking at a joint press conference here on Sunday, they said that between 1994 and 2008, there were some restrictions on English Medium schools based on language policy. But in 2008, the language policy was scrapped. On May 6, 2014, the Supreme Court, in its historic verdict, even dismissed the review petition of the State government and held that the government could not impose Kannada as a medium of instruction on the State. But following the apathy of the government, as many as 1,800 English Medium Schools coming under KUSMA have been recorded as Kannada Medium Schools in government records.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans',Lora,Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans',Lora,Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans',Lora,Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:20px">"The association has contemplated civil suit against the government for derecognizing some of the schools (for running English medium) and against alleged harassment of schools by officials of the Department of Public Instruction in this regard", they said. Mr Reddy said that they had been requesting the government to convert existing Kannada- medium schools to English schools and even though six months have passed, the government has not replied to this.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans',Lora,Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans',Lora,Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans',Lora,Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:20px">KUSMA has threatened to file a Rs 100-crore civil lawsuit against State government officials for not implementing the Supreme Court verdict on the medium of instruction in schools. "We have every right to run English-medium schools since the Supreme Court verdict in this regard is in our favor. Irrespective of whether the government is going to process our applications or not, we will run classes in English medium", Mr Reddy clarified. KUSMA Joint Secretary Vinay Shetty, members Abdul Sattar, Shantkumar, S L Bhat, Shrinivas Halappa Jakalannanavar and others were present.</span><div><font color="#000000" face="Open Sans, Lora, Arial"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Open Sans, Lora, Arial"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><a href="http://www.sahilonline.org/newsDetails.php?cid=1&nid=29806">http://www.sahilonline.org/newsDetails.php?cid=1&nid=29806</a></span><br clear="all"></font><div><br></div>-- <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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