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Bengaluru: Not right to impose any language - CM Kumaraswamy on draft education policy on Hindi

  •   Sun, Jun 02 2019 10:49:59 PM

Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Jun 2: Chief minister H D Kumaraswamy on Sunday June 2 expressed his reservations about the draft National Education Policy that recommends making teaching of Hindi compulsory up to class 8.

Taking to Twitter, Kumaraswamy said that it was not right to impose any language on others for any reason in the name of three-language policy.

He also said that the state government would seek more information on the proposed policy and convey its stand on the matter to the central government.


Dividing states into Hindi speaking and non-Hindi speaking, the Kasturirangan Committee recommends teaching of Hindi in non-Hindi speaking states in addition to the regional language and English.

In the case of Hindi speaking states, the Committee suggests teaching of Hindi, English and one of the modern Indian languages from other parts of India.

However, it has not specified what the modern Indian language would be. Tamil has been accorded a classical language status by the Central government.

The draft policy has met wide opposition especially in the southern states and also in West Bengal, where politicians, academicians and experts alike have slammed the centre for attempting to impose Hindi on non-Hindi speaking states.

The Centre on Saturday clarified that the three-language system was just a recommendation and not a policy.

Information and broadcasting (I&B) minister Prakash Javadekar also told the media: "The committee on new education policy has submitted its report. The government has not taken any decision on it."

Javadekar, who was HRD minister in the previous NDA government, said all Indian languages will be promoted.

 

With IANS inputs
  

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  • richard, sharjah/shirva

    Mon, Jun 03 2019

    better kumaranna take his party JDS and his kutumba to TN where he can enjoy his taste and can dictate people, sure he may be get some seats noW!
    But Karnataka people in majority never accept you tamil style talks!!..beware congress itself throw you in dust bin if you talk all these non sense on language Hindi....people respect Kannada as mother tongue and Hindi as National common language....
    Don't be a Tamilian Kumaranna

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  • SmR, Karkala

    Mon, Jun 03 2019

    In December 1953, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appointed the States Reorganization Commission to reorganize the Indian states. It was headed by the retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Fazal Ali. and the commission itself was known as the Fazal Ali Commission.
    The States Reorganization Act was enacted on 31 August 1956 and came into effect on 1 November.
    In 1956, on the recommendation of a commission, linguistic divisions were carried further, dividing India into 14 language-based states: Kerala was created for Malayalam speakers, Karnataka for Kannada speakers, and Madras (present-day Tamilnadu) for Tamil speakers.

    The new HRD minister whose own credential of degree is a question now wanted to impose the Hindi on a non-Hindi speaking state to outreach the RSS reach in South India.

    Around 19500 languages and dialects are spoken in India as the mother tongue of people. There r 121 languages out of this big lot which is used by more than 10000 people. 23 of them are used by millions.

    Why only Hindi? Is it because Most RSS leaders can't speak other languages?

    Jai Hind

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  • Salim, Bagalkot

    Mon, Jun 03 2019

    Come on Kumaranna...the neighbouring state Kerala is imposing Malayalam on Kannadigas in Kasaragod...but you never reacted to that issue...don't be biased...

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  • Nagendra, Visakhapatnam

    Mon, Jun 03 2019

    I don't know why BJP is forcing Hindi on South Indian States. If anyone want to learn any Language, they will learn on their own will to survive. Being a south Indian i know Hindi & have learnt all south Indian Languages as it gives me opportunity to understand their language better. Forcing Hindi in south India have always led to rejecting Hindi than people accepting it voluntarily. The more you enforce the stronger the retaliation is as it caused sever issues with Local Languages and Dialect.

    Why don't BJP Instead look at improving our academic capabilities and the opportunities for our younger generation to do research. If you are seriously looking at India to grow, give those secondary schools and technical colleges and universities more funding to let these kids research and innovate for India. Right now many of our youngsters leave to other countries to do Research & PHD and settles down due to lack of Infrastructure in our Educational Institutes or in the country.
    Many of our government colleges requests students to buy equipment for chemistry & physics experiments as they don't get enough money to buy these equipment frequently. An Engineering student doesn't learn stress testing on a material until or unless he is studying in a IIT or ISC's. India needs more importance to be given for future than past.

    Most of the North Indians don't want to accept that many South Indians doesn't know Hindi but does know little English. When people get into Public transport or Cabs they speak Hindi and if the person cannot understand Hindi they say Don't you know Hindi and it becomes an Argument. If this is allowed, it will create more and more problems where the existing regional languages looses their existence. Recently some of these kinds of issues were reported in Bangalore where people accused other for not knowing Hindi.

    Note: All South Indian Leaders who worked as PM know Hindi, where as none of North Indian PM's know at-least one South Indian Language

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  • Sudheer, Udupi

    Mon, Jun 03 2019

    I have studied Hindi during my primary and high school days as a compulsory subject. Further, watching Bollywood movies improved my Hindi at-least as a spoken language. This really helps now during my Mumbai and Delhi visits (work related).

    There is no harm in learning a new language. While South Indians can learn Hindi, let North Indians learn at least one South Indian language of their choice.

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  • Neha, Dk

    Mon, Jun 03 2019

    Can our MP speak Hindi🤔 make it compulsory for all the politicians to learn Hindi

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  • Mangalurian, Mangaluru

    Mon, Jun 03 2019

    From its early days, possibly observing the China experiment under Mao, the RSS has been repeating its one raga: "one nation" and "swadeshi".

    How exactly this raga matches with RSS's support to the British pre-independence is difficult to understand.

    What BJP has been trying to do is implement this one nation, one language, one system, one religion, one culture idea.

    So far, BJP's many attempts have failed.

    In the modern world, the choice of learning a language should be left to the students and the parents.

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  • Vicky, Mangalore

    Mon, Jun 03 2019

    Hindi is mathra basha. Should introduce in all the states. Let all languages to be learned. Many of south states only depend upon regional languages and for them it's becoming too problemetic while they visit north indian states. Why people afraid of hindi. Make it compulsory in all institutions.

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  • chethana, mangalore

    Mon, Jun 03 2019

    Now the newly formed and more stronger saffron party will try to impose all non sense rules in this country. Basically they will try to implement what is being taught in the Shakhas of RSS.
    One of the prime beliefs of RSS is that the whole country should speak Hindi.
    Though Karnataka will not oppose this move, Bengal, Tamil Nadu and even Kerala will vociferously oppose this nonsense.
    If south Indians do not stand up, they will be heckled like anything. In Central politics only North Indians are dominating right from our Independence time. It is high time for the Southies to unite
    This Hindi imposition is just the beginning, there is more to come

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Mon, Jun 03 2019

    Let's go along with what India wants ...

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  • Satish, Kudla

    Mon, Jun 03 2019

    Similarly no need of kanndakarana for tulunad.

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  • Gopala, UK

    Mon, Jun 03 2019

    Hindi is not our language, we South Indians we need only Kannada and English. Do not impose your language on us. We are Knnadigas and we do not want any thing imposing on us by Aaryans. Now we have up to 45% criminals in the parliament.

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  • Narendra Kumar, Mangalore

    Sun, Jun 02 2019

    This is nothing but thrusting on non hindi speaking areas of Union of India and who gave them this right???

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