Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore (SP)
Bangalore, Aug 30: The state government's efforts to put its language policy on a firm footing by extracting a stay order from the Supreme Court for the state High Court verdict, has come to naught. The three-member bench of the supreme court headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, at the hearing of the special leave petition filed against the High Court judgement by the government on Friday August 29, refused to consider the government's pleas for issuing a stay order.
The court ordered issuance of notices to managements of private unaided schools in the state, to respond to the SLP within three weeks. President of Karnataka Unaided Schools Management Association G S Sharma said that the association will study the petition and respond to it suitably. He expressed the belief that the court will not come in the way of the liberty the parents enjoy as far as choosing the kind of education and medium of instruction their wards need to have.
Earlier, the High Court had upheld the right of the private unaided schools in the state to choose the medium of the instruction of their liking, duly quashing a part of the government order making it compulsory for the schools to adopt Kannada as the medium of instruction.