<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="">Kannada Medium and Language Learning bills adopted in Karnataka Assembly
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<h2>CM to lead a delegation of floor-leaders to PM on language policy</h2>
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Moving one step forward with respect to enforcing Kannada in schools,
the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday adopted two prominent Bills
including the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education
(Karnataka Amendment) Bill 2015 which seeks to provide primary education
(Standard I to V) in child’s mother tongue or in Kannada. </p>
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However, this Bill needs to get the presidential assent to become a legislation as it requires a Constitutional amendment.
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Both the Bills were adopted unanimously after Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah assured the House of taking a delegation of floor leaders
from all the parties in the State legislature to Delhi to meet Prime
Minister Narendra Modi to impress upon him about the need to effect a
Constitutional amendment for enforcing Kannada as medium of instruction
for primary education.
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He would also raise the issue at the meeting of the National Development
Council to be convened by the Prime Minister, he said and noted that he
had already written to all the chief ministers seeking their
co-operation in the matter.
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Earlier, the members cutting across political affiliations urged Mr.
Siddaramaiah to take a lead in building consensus among other chief
ministers of the country to take the issue forward.
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Piloting the Bill, Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education
Kimmane Ratnakar said enforcing Kannada as medium of instruction in
primary school as well as subject from I to X Standard would go a long
way in protecting the language.
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The Bill was brought in the wake of the state’s language policy being
turned down by the Constitutional bench of the Supreme Court. The
minister maintained that the policy had been turned down as it had been
brought through a government notification instead of a legislation.
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The Assembly also adopted the Kannada Language Learning Bill-2015 that
seeks to make it mandatory for students in Standards I to X in “all
schools” in the State to be taught Kannada language as one of the
compulsory languages in all classes in a phased manner from 2015-16.
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The minister clarified that the government was leaving the schools
affiliated to CBSE and ICSE out of the ambit of this Bill for the
present. However, there were only 700 such schools which had officially
got such affiliations, he said. <br></p><p class=""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/kannada-medium-and-language-learning-bills-adopted-in-karnataka-assembly/article7053551.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/kannada-medium-and-language-learning-bills-adopted-in-karnataka-assembly/article7053551.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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