[lg policy] Karnataka: Kannada Medium and Language Learning bills adopted in Karnataka Assembly

[Harold Schiffman]

Kannada Medium and Language Learning bills adopted in Karnataka Assembly
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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.

However, this Bill needs to get the presidential assent to become a
legislation as it requires a Constitutional amendment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/kannada-medium-and-language-learning-bills-adopted-in-karnataka-assembly/article7053551.ece


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