Daijiworld Media Network - Dharwad (SP)

Dharwad, Jul 7: Honorary president of All Karnataka Central Kannada Action Committee and poet Dr Chennaveera Kanavi has urged the government to bring out an ordinance to protect its language policy. This ordinance should be in force till the Supreme Court pronounces its final verdict in the appeal filed by the state against the High Court judgment, he suggested.

Speaking at a press conference here on Monday July 6, Kanavi recalled that the 1994 verdict of the Supreme Court had clearly said that the medium of instruction at the primary level should be either mother tongue or regional language. The language policy of the state government rests on this verdict. But private educational institutions that are driven by profit motive, have been creating hurdles in   its implementation, he lamented.

The very action of the private unaided educational institutions in imparting education in English was grossly wrong and illegal.  They had, at the time of getting permission, given an undertaking in writing to the government, promising to stick to Kannada as the medium of instruction. They acted illegally by violating their own undertaking to the government. The High Court should have taken into account the improper and illegal action of these institutions. These institutions, which have violated the very undertaking they had given, can not be expected to follow the regulations and judgments the judiciary might pass. Hence, the government and the people of the state should wake up and take preventive action against the illegal ways of these educational institutions, he advised.