Click to play videoNew Delhi: The fate of over four thousand primary school students in Karnataka hangs in balance as the state government is yet to take a decision on their relocation after the government derecognised 400 unaided private schools for teaching in English in violation of the government's policy on teaching in Kannada from class I to class IV.
The Karnataka government is meeting on Tuesday to find a solution to the long-drawn case.
The Karnataka High Court has ordered the relocation of approximately 4,000 students studying in these schools. Meanwhile, around 1,500 other private schools have been given time till June 14 to file affidavits stating that they will teach in Kannada.
Schools set up after 1994 had to compulsorily teach in Kannada medium from classes I to IV but 2,000 schools across Karnataka have been violating the norm.
The Karnataka High Court on Friday had vacated the interim stay order in respect of over 400 derecognised schools, which are part of the Karnataka State Private School Managements Federation, for their failure to file affidavits as per the court's earlier direction.
Justice Rammohan Reddy had asked the government advocate to instruct the Block Education Officers to visit these schools and make necessary arrangements to relocate the students.
Following the court's directive to shift children, primary and secondary education minister Basavaraj Horatti asked the education department to immediately draw up an action plan.
The court had observed, “These irresponsible managements still think they can do anything. They do not know what is contempt of court. If they don't obey the orders, they have to face the music.”
On May 30, the court had asked the individual members affiliated to the petitioner federation to file separate affidavits by June 1 stating that they had complied with the grant of recognition norms.
Unrelenting, president of the federation P Prakash said they would file an appeal before the division Bench. “We would even approach Supreme Court if necessary,” he said.
There are only 600 schools in Karnataka, which have recognition to teach in English medium, and they can't accommodate all the students of schools that have been de-recognised.
However, education experts say schools could just get themselves registered as tutorials. Kannada medium is mandatory only till class IV, so they can teach students in these tutorials till then and then shift them to class V in the same school.
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