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Minister warns erring schools
Source
hindu
Date
2005-06-11
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Minister warns erring schools
Staff Reporter
DDPIs to check if norms have been violated on medium of instruction
STUDY TIME: Children looking at an item on display at the exhibition on `The World of Astronomical Observatories at the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum in Bangalore on Friday. — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy
BANGALORE: The State Government will initiate action against English medium schools that were originally permitted to start only Kannada medium classes, the Primary and Secondary Education Minister, R. Ramalinga Reddy, said here on Friday.
He told presspersons on the sidelines of the inauguration of an exhibition on `The World of Astronomical Observatories that the Deputy Directors of Public Instruction will inspect schools all over the State to find out if they had violated norms.
Notices
We will issue notices and eventually close them as we have done in the case of unauthorised schools, he said.
If the schools were originally permitted to start classes in Kannada medium and have converted into English medium schools, we will ensure that they stick to Kannada medium, he said.
On the Kannada Sahitya Parishats demand that the State Government should issue an order directing all schools to teach English from Class III, Mr. Reddy said he will discuss the matter with the Chief Minister, N. Dharam Singh.
Appeal
He appealed to the parishat members, who have threatened to launch an agitation on June 14 in support of their demands, to call off the strike.
As the subject pertaining to the States Language Policy is still in court, we cannot issue any order till the stay is vacated, he said.
Mr. Reddy said the Government will also ensure that Kannada is offered as a subject for Kannadigas in all CBSE schools.
Earlier, the Minister said the Governments EDUSAT programme that provides education through satellites will be extended to schools and colleges in Bidar and Gulbarga.
The programme is successfully running in over 850 schools. I spoke to the Union Human Resource Development Minister, Arjun Singh, during a recent meeting of Education Ministers about permitting us to extend it to these two districts, he said. He lauded the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum and the National Council of Science Museum for organising the exhibition.