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<p class=""> The 81st All-India Kannada Sahitya Sammelan got off to a
 spirited start at the historical and pilgrimage town of Shravanabelgola
 with poet and sammelan president Siddalingaiah stressing the need for a
 massive public movement for sustenance of Kannada. Making a fervent 
plea to people to join such a movement, he asked them to be ready for 
any sacrifice.</p><p class="">In the presidential speech at the 
inaugural ceremony, he said Karnataka should appeal to the Centre to 
bring about suitable amendments and a national language policy to 
facilitate that primary school education was in the languages included 
in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. The Chief Minister should 
make efforts to bring about consensus among other States on this and 
till then, State should have its own language policy on the lines of the
 Right to Education Act, he noted.</p><p class="">Dr. Siddalingaiah 
said all government schools should be upgraded as gram panchayat public 
schools and basic necessities should be provided. English should be 
taught as a language from the first standard effectively, he added.</p><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/massive-movement-needed-to-protect-kannada-siddalingaiah/article6848276.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/massive-movement-needed-to-protect-kannada-siddalingaiah/article6848276.ece</a><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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