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<p class="">A few Education Department officials had to sacrifice
their weekly off on Sunday. They had to work at the office to grant
permission to 543 schools in the Bengaluru and Mysuru divisions to
impart education in English medium.</p><p class="">With the High
Court lambasting the Department of Public Instruction to speed up the
process, the department officials accorded English medium status to
1,172 of the total 1,297 schools in the Bengaluru and Mysuru division.
The department, however, is yet to begin processing the applications of
managements that want to start new English medium schools from the
2015-2016. These 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. Following the
Supreme Court order that quashed the language policy, the High Court of
Karnataka had set May 20 deadline for the State government to grant
English-medium status to all existing schools, which have been imparting
education in English for children in classes 1 to 5 since 1994.</p><p class=""><i><b>English medium status granted to 1,172 of the total 1,297 schools in the Bengaluru and Mysuru divisions</b></i></p><p class=""><i><b><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/dpi-officials-sacrifice-their-off-on-sunday/article7292849.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/dpi-officials-sacrifice-their-off-on-sunday/article7292849.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/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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