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<p><strong>‘Have written to CBSE about teaching Kannada’</strong></p><p>Primary
and Secondary Education Minister Tanveer Sait has written to the
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) about the need for
affiliated schools to teach Kannada as a language. </p><p>M. Srinivasan,
president of the Managements of Independent CBSE Schools’ Association,
said many CBSE schools were in a fix as to how they should accommodate
Kannada as a subject. The language policy, which has got the President’s
nod, states that CBSE schools should teach Hindi as the second
language, but the State government has been pushing for Kannada. </p><p>Mr.
Srinivasan pointed out that with English as the first language, there
was confusion among school managements about what the second language
should be</p>
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