Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SB)
 

Mangalore, Jul 26: Dakshina Kannada district unit of Kannada Sahitya Parishat (KSP) here on Saturday July 25 resolved to urge the government to improve the quality of education in government schools. 

KSP district unit president Pradeep Kumar Kalkura presided over the meeting that was held to discuss the fallout of Supreme Court’s (SC) judgement refusing to stay high court’s decision to permit English medium schools to function in Karnataka. At the meeting majority were of the opinion that English should be made one of the subjects for students right from the primary level and urged the government to appoint qualified teachers to teach the subject. The government should appoint one teacher per classroom and not go strictly by the rulebook of maintaining the student-teacher ratio, they maintained. 

Kalkura said the KSP too should take a practical view and draft quality syllabus in Kannada for academic use. The meeting was also of the opinion that the KSP should implead itself in the ongoing case before the SC so that literary body could convey its view to the apex court. 

Further at the meeting, people from cross section of society expressed their views said that there was a deliberate attempt to denigrate Kannada medium schools and uphold the virtues of education imparted in English medium schools. There was concern at the government’s failure to justify the state’s language policy through counsel in courts.