Karnataka - Mysore

DDPI issues notices to 15 private schools

Staff Correspondent

`They violated the order to use Kannada as medium of instruction'

MYSORE: The Department of Public Instructions has issued notices to fifteen private primary schools in the city, both aided and unaided, for allegedly violating the Government Order asking them to use Kannada as medium of instruction.

A notice issued by E Nanjappa, Deputy Director of Public Instructions (DDPI), said that private schools, which had been teaching in English medium in violation of Government rules, would lose recognition. Although the Government had ordered that the medium of instruction in classes I, II, III, IV and V should be Kannada, fifteen schools in the city, which had obtained recognition for teaching in the language, had violated the order, the DDPI said. The schools should not only teach in Kannada, but also hold examinations in the language, he said.

The decision to issue notices to the schools follows a meeting convened by Minister for Primary and Secondary Education in Bangalore. The DDPI said the schools to which notices had been sent included Daisy Convent in Aravindnagar; Sheeba Education Trust in Kuvempunagar; Alpha Education School on Manandavadi Road; Lucky School in Shivajinagar; Arcade School in Vasu Layout; Jnanarashmi School; Jnanajyothi School; Vishwamanava Vidyanikethana; Vijaya Vittala School in Kuvempunagar; Supriya School; Pragathi Vidyalaya; MSVK School; GES School; Gangothri School in Sharadadevi Nagar; and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Centre. He appealed to parents to complain to the Block Education Officer if they came to know that schools were using English as the medium of instruction.

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