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Schools may have to cough up just ₹500 for not teaching Kannada
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<p> The rule: All schools, including Central board schools, have to
teach Kannada as first or second language under the Kannada Language
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DPI is set to crack down on institutions that have not implemented Kannada rule
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<p> Almost three months after it was made mandatory for all schools,
including Central board schools, to teach Kannada as first or second <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/tag/546-428/language/?utm=bodytag"><strong>language </strong></a>under
the Kannada Language Learning Act, 2015, the Department of Public
Instruction (DPI) is set to crack down on institutions that have not
implemented the rule.</p><p>Experts, however, have pointed out a major
hurdle in ensuring compliance: Schools have to cough up a penalty of
only ₹500 if they have not started teaching <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/tag/555-546-428/kannada/?utm=bodytag"><strong>Kannada </strong></a>as the first or the second language.</p><p>According
to rules framed under the Act, all schools, including those affiliated
to the Central Board of Secondary Education and the Council for the
Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), once proved guilty of
violating the norms, should be punished with a fine which may extend up
to ₹500. If the offence is a continuing one, they have to pay a daily
fine that is “not exceeding ₹100 during the period of contravention of
the Act or the rules.”</p><p><strong>Inspections </strong></p><p>In a
circular issued last week, the DPI said as per the Act, all schools have
to mandatorily teach Kannada as the first or second language for class
one students for the 2017–18 academic year. It has also said that the
rule should be implemented phase wise up to class 10 in the coming
years. The department has also formed a supervision committee that will
inspect and penalise schools that are not teaching Kannada.</p><p><span class="gmail-ng_TypographyTag">It
has asked the jurisdictional education officers to ensure that these
schools teach Kannada from the 2018–19 academic year for classes one and
two. It has asked all schools to submit the number of Kannada books
they would require for this purpose and provide this information in the
Student Achievement Tracking System (SATS) so that the data could be
sent to the Karnataka Textbook Society, which will provide textbooks.</span> </p><p><strong>Demand to amend rules </strong></p><p>Kannada
activists and experts are now demanding that the rules should be
amended and a more stringent penalty imposed so that schools fall in
line. </p><p>Writer Baragur Ramachandrappa said, “The recognition of
schools needs to be withdrawn. The department is not asking them to
impart education in Kannada. It is only asking them to teach Kannada as a
language and this is the least that private school managements can do.”</p><p>
He, however, said there was a need for the department to hold a
dialogue with private school managements and convince them to teach
Kannada. </p><p>President of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat Manu Baligar
said the State government should impose a more stringent penalty that
can extend up to ₹25,000 so that schools fall in line. </p><p>Department
officials, however, said that schools would fall in line “despite the
meagre fine” as they will not want to be blacklisted by the department.</p><p>M.
Srinivasan, president of the Managements of Independent CBSE Schools’
Association, said, “We are getting ready to take the legal route and
want to ask the High Court to leave the choice to parents and students. A
language policy which has got the President’s nod states that CBSE
schools should teach Hindi as the second language. English is the first
language. The State government has asked us to teach Kannada as the
first or second language. So, it puts us in a quandary and forces us to
violate rules framed by either the State or the Central government.”</p><p>Sujatha
K.V., a parent, said, “Many schools are in a fix as to how they should
accommodate Kannada. CBSE schools are supposed to teach two languages
from classes one to four but since November 2017 they are teaching three
languages. In fact, some schools are terming both Hindi and Kannada as
the second language.”</p>
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