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hindu
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2005-06-15
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The Kannada Sahitya Parishat supported by several Kannada organisations on Tuesday launched the Matrubhasha Madhyama Chaluvali demanding a uniform school education policy in the State.
The district units of the parishat and the Kannada organisations have submitted a five-point charter of demands to the Government - that the mother tongue or the regional language should be taught compulsorily from first to seventh standards, including the pre-primary classes from the current academic year; the Government should take immediate steps to vacate the stay given by the Karnataka High Court on the Supreme Court rulings; English should be taught as an optional subject from class three and regularly from class five in government schools and not from first standard as a compulsory subject; the Government should take steps to de-recognise anti-Kannada schools which are teaching in English-medium from primary classes in violation of the education policy and suspend officials who are supporting such schools; and Kannada should be made a compulsory subject for the children of Kannadiga parents studying in Central schools in the State.
Speaking at the launch of the agitation here, the president of the Kendriya Kannada Sahitya Parishat, Chandrashekhar Patil, said that as part of the agitation, demands, such as use of only Kannada in administrative work and providing jobs only to Kannadigas, will be made. On the stand of the State unit of the Dalit Sangharsha Samiti, some other organisations and intellectuals in favour of teaching English as a subject from first standard in all government schools, Prof. Patil said: We are demanding a uniform education policy in the larger interests of Kannada, and there is no room for English at the cost of Kannada. Teaching English with Kannada from first standard in government schools is irrational considering their respective perspectives and the absorbing abilities of the children. The Minister for Primary Education, R. Ramalinga Reddy, has stated that the question of introducing English from first standard has been deferred to the next academic year.
But the Government is concealing the fact that it cannot do as it wishes because of our pressure. Even after 50 years of the unification of the State, the people are yet to install a Kannada government. The former president of the parishat G. Narayana; the poet Sumatindra Nadig; the former Minister B.T. Lalitha Naik; Mukhyamantri Chandru, MLC and Kamala Hampana, writer, spoke.
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