Date:25/05/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/05/25/stories/2007052521710100.htm

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HC tells schools to stick to medium norms

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court has directed schools, which had challenged the withdrawal of recognition to them, to admit students only in the medium in which the institutions had been permitted to operate by the State Government.

The schools, which were permitted to teach only in Kannada, had flouted rules and were teaching in English. The Government had deemed them illegal, following which they had gone to court.

The court on Thursday also directed the schools to exhibit a board at the admission counters and also write on the receipts given to parents stating that the admissions were subject to the decision on the pending writ petitions.

In an interim order, Justice A.C. Kabbin directed all cases relating to the withdrawal of recognition of schools to be posted to May 29. He ruled that the stay and status quo orders would be effective only till June 4. The orders of withdrawal of recognition of the schools were stayed till June 4.

Orders

He had passed the orders on writ petitions which had challenged the language policy of the State, the voluntary scheme in which schools were asked to pay a penalty for violating the policy on the medium of instruction, and the withdrawal of recognition of schools.

When the case came up, the State said it had formulated the scheme after it found that more than 2,200 schools had violated the undertaking they had given on the medium of instruction.