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<p class="">Even though the curative petition filed by the State
government pertaining to the 1994 language policy was quashed by Supreme
Court recently, the State government has not given up. It plans to
introduce bills in the ongoing legislature session to make mother tongue
the medium of instruction.</p><p class="">Amendment to the Right of
Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, and the Kannada
Language Learning Bill, 2015, which would make Kannada compulsory as the
first or second language in all State board schools, would be passed in
the Assembly, Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education
Minister Kimmane Ratnakar told presspersons here on Tuesday.</p><p class="">He also said that they would meet Members of Parliament to emphasise their viewpoint.</p><p class=""><b>English-medium</b></p><p class="">After
chairing a two-hour long meeting with a small group of writers and
scholars, he said: “Each application (to register English medium
schools) would be judged on the basis of merit. We will follow the
directions of the Supreme Court and the High Court.”</p><p class="">He
said that while the government would process applications for the new
schools, the department would announce if permission was granted only by
April or May.</p><p class="">The former Kannada Sahitya Parishat
president Chandrashekar Patil said that the efforts to make mother
tongue the medium of instruction had become a movement, and said that
the State government’s efforts would not only protect Kannada but
various other languages.</p><p class=""><i><b>Government plans to amend laws</b></i></p><p class=""><i><b><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/state-determined-to-make-mother-tongue-language-of-instruction/article7029804.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/state-determined-to-make-mother-tongue-language-of-instruction/article7029804.ece</a><br></b></i></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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