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Another GO quashed; relief to schools

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court has quashed a Government Order (GO) of 2002 making it mandatory for private primary schools to teach in Kannada from the first to fifth standards.

This is the second time that the High Court is quashing Government Orders relating to medium of instruction.

On July 2, 2008, a Full Bench comprising the then Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph, Justice Manjula Challur and Justice N. Kumar, quashed several provisions of a 1994 GO relating to teaching in Kannada-medium.

The 1994 GO had made it mandatory for private primary schools to teach in Kannada-medium from the first to the fourth standards.

The 2002 GO, issued on May 30, 2002, had not only reiterated the provisions of the 1994 order but extended Kannada as the medium of instruction till the fifth standard.

Referring to the Full Bench judgment and also judgments of the Supreme Court, Justice Huluvadi G. Ramesh quashed provisions 2, 4 and 5 of the 2002 order, more particularly those dealing with medium of instruction and de-recognition of schools.

‘Need of the day’

Allowing the petitions, Mr. Ramesh, who released the order on Friday, said the menace of donation and high fees could be curbed if the State permitted more English-medium schools to be opened. “Schools imparting education in English-medium are the need of the day,” he said.

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