Schools and student organisations have slammed the recommendations of various National Education Policy-2020 position papers, including language education, knowledge of India, health and well-being, and others.
The Associated Managements of Primary and Secondary Schools in Karnataka (KAMS) has opposed the recommendations regarding the medium of instruction, which say that until at least Class V, but preferably till Class VIII and beyond, it will be the mother tongue or the local language.
Shashikumar. D., general secretary of KAMS, has written to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and said, “The government policy introducing Kannada as the first language to children whose mother tongue is Kannada is valid. The policy that all children, whose mother tongue is not Kannada, the official language of the State, shall study Kannada as one of the subjects is also valid. The government policy to have the mother tongue or the regional language as the medium of instruction at the primary level is valid and legal, in the case of schools run or aided by the State. But, the government policy compelling children studying in other government recognized schools to have primary education only in the mother tongue or the regional language is violative of Articles 19(1)(g), 26, and 30(1) of the Constitution”.
