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<p class="">As many as 649 of the total 926 schools in Bengaluru and Mysuru divisions have been given the English-medium tag.</p><p class="">This
includes schools that were established after 1994, when the government
stopped recognising English-medium schools as it formulated the language
policy mandating that the medium of instruction should be in the
child’s mother tongue or the regional language.</p><p class="">Following
the Supreme Court order that quashed the language policy, the High
Court of Karnataka had set May 20 as the deadline for the State
government to grant English-medium status to all existing schools, which
have been imparting education in English from classes 1 to 5 since
1994.</p><p class="">Sources in the department said files pertaining
to the remaining 277 schools were sent to the Deputy Directors of
Public Instruction (DDPI) for clarifications. They also said that the
decision on sanctioning permission for new English-medium schools were
yet to be processed.</p><p class="">D. Shashi Kumar, General
Secretary of the Associated Managements of Primary and Secondary Schools
in Karnataka, urged the Department of Public Instruction to now
sanction permission for classes 6 to 8 as well, which has been rejected
citing the language policy.</p><p class="">“Many schools are branded
unauthorised for not having permission to run upper primary as the
department has not considered their proposals to run English-medium
classes,” he said.</p><p class=""><i><b>Files pertaining to</b></i></p><p class=""><i><b>the remaining 277 schools have been sent to DDPIs for clarification</b></i></p><p class=""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/englishmedium-tag-for-649-schools/article7240126.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/englishmedium-tag-for-649-schools/article7240126.ece</a><br></p><p class=""><i><b><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/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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