Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (MS)
Bengaluru, Nov 14: Education minister warned that the recognition of schools which do not teach Kannada as per the Kannada Language Learning Act of 2017 will be cancelled. He said that Kannada is not being taught in more than 90% of the schools which follow CBSE and ICSE board syllabus.
"The Kannada Language Learning Act is implemented from 2017. The motto of the act is to teach Kannada as a first or second language in every school. We had called a meeting to check the level of actual implementation of this act at the school level. We have already held two important meetings. A high level of inspection committee is formed to monitor the schools which do not teach Kannada. Nagabharana, president of Kannada Development Authority and myself are the members of this committee," said the Minister.
Suresh Kumar further said, "The high level inspection committee will meet once in every three months and discuss on the extent of Kannada language teaching in schools. The officers have been informed to inspect the situation of Kannada language learning in Kendriya Vidyalaya schools. We have got information that 44 schools in Bengaluru are not teaching Kannada. It is decided to serve notice to these schools.
"A report is given in 2017 by the Kannada Development Authority for the strengthening of government schools. There are 21 recommendations in the report submitted by the authority. Those recommendations will be studied and committee will be formed at district and state level. Inspection will be done with regards to the survival and extinction of government schools.
"The central government has given instructions to conduct school census. This will be done from November 20 to December 20. It will be convenient to know the incomplete information from this census in which there are 65 questions. In addition, a separate app is developed for this census. There are 55,965 aided schools in total. As many as 3,731 teams including district DIET personnel, DIET trainers, BRP and CRP,” he said.