Learning Kannada not compulsory for UG students under NEP, says Union government to HC- Education News
Union government has informed the Karnataka High Court that the state government can’t make learning Kannada compulsory for undergraduate students as per the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
It further added that NEP makes no mention of any mandatory language learning. The submission was made in the affidavit filed before the Karnataka High Court by Dinesh T Pali, Under-secretary, Department of Higher Education (Ministry of Education), while the court was hearing a petition filed by a group of students as well as a PIL filed by Samskrita Bharati (Karnataka) Trust, Bengaluru, and three other institutions associated with the promotion of Sanskrit language. The petitioners have claimed that compelling students to learn Kannada as a language is quite opposite to the very objective of National Education Policy 2020. In the last hearing, the state government had contended that making Kannada a compulsory language was a policy decision in tune with the recommendations of the VK Gokak Committee report. In the affidavit, Pali said that NEP is intended to achieve a comprehensive educational system for citizens while keeping local, regional, and national aspirations in mind. “The policy must be understood, interpreted, and implemented while keeping in mind the broad objectives enshrined in the Constitution,” the affidavit said.
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