Report and pic: Shekar Ajekar
Daijiworld Media Network - Moodbidri (SP)
Moodbidri, Jun 2: State home minister Dr V S Acharya informed, that the state government has been putting in honest efforts to ensure that Tulu is introduced as the third language in the schools from the current academic year onwards. He added that suitable instructions will be issued to the department of education to take necessary action in this regard.
He was speaking to a group of representatives of Karnataka Tulu Acdemy which met him at Bangalore on Monday June 1.
Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy president Dr Paltady Ramakrishna Achar handed over a memorandum to the minister on the occasion, seeking early granting of long-awaited facilities to Tulu language including some major suggestions. Academy members Udaya Dharmastala, Dr Padmanabha Kekunnaya and Dr Duggappa Kajekar accompanied Dr Achar during the said visit.