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<h1 class="">Medium of instruction issue: State plans to amend Central Act</h1><div class=""> </div>
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<p class="">Despite the Supreme Court striking down the State’s
language policy in September 2014, the Siddaramaiah government seems all
set to harden its position on implementing Kannada as the compulsory
medium of instruction for primary education (classes 1 to 5)</p><p class="">Explaining
a decision taken at a Cabinet meeting here on Thursday, Principal
Secretary in charge of Primary and Secondary Education Sanjeev Kumar
told
<i>The Hindu</i>
that the government would amend the Right of Children to Free and
Compulsory Education Act, 2009, a Central Act, which comes under the
Concurrent List.</p><p class="">While Section 29 (f) of the Act
reads, “medium of instruction shall, as far as practicable, be the
mother tongue”, the State’s amendment would seek to remove “as far as
practicable” from the Act, thus making the mother tongue, which, in
Karnataka is construed as Kannada, compulsory, added Mr. Kumar. Such an
amendment would also require the President’s assent, added legal
experts. Speaking to reporters, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister
T.B. Jayachandra said, “Our strategy is to make a law on the medium of
instruction to impress upon the Supreme Court during the hearing on the
curative and contempt of court petitions.”</p><p class="">While the
State has filed a curative petition in the Supreme Court challenging the
2014 order, private schools have filed contempt petitions against the
State.</p><p class=""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/language-policy-karnataka-plans-to-amend-central-act/article6836674.ece?ref=tpnews">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/language-policy-karnataka-plans-to-amend-central-act/article6836674.ece?ref=tpnews</a><br></p></div><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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