Bangalore: India's IT state is out to boycott English! Or at least that seems to be the policy of the state government vis-a-vis the primary schools.
The Karnataka Government is considering de-recognition of over a thousand primary schools for switching over to English from Kannada language as their medium of instruction.
The government has already issued notices to 1,416 primary schools across the state for violating the language policy.
According to Basavaraj Horatti, Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, this is a violation of the state language policy. "These schools had taken permission to teach in Kannada medium, but had been offering education in English medium. This is a clear violation of the language policy as well as the direction of the Supreme Court on the use of mother-tongue," he says.
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education handed out the notices to the schools after its officials carried out inspections on the medium being followed. The minister says the government would not hesitate to withdraw the recognition granted to these schools.
This is the latest move by the state government which has been carrying out a continuous tirade against English medium schools all over the states.
Recently, 13 private schools in Mysore faced the wrath of the government for the same reason. The schools were given a week to withdraw classes being conducted in English medium.
The authorities said the schools were given permission to conduct classes in Kannada medium, but they were all running classes in English medium.
District-level education officers have been conducting inspections and teams have been formed to identify schools, which conduct classes in English medium.
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