HASSAN: The committee set up under the chairmanship of Jagannatha Rao, former Director of Public Instruction, to make recommendations for formulating a comprehensive education policy, is expected to submit its report in three months.

This was stated by Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, Basavaraj Horatti, who was here on Saturday to participate in a convention organised by the Hassan District Private High School and Composite Pre-University College Teachers' Association.

Mr. Horatti told presspersons said another committee appointed under the chairmanship of L.R. Vaidyanathan to make recommendations for introduction of physical education from the primary to pre-university level, would submit its report in two months.

Recommendations of both the committees would be discussed threadbare in the Cabinet, before giving final shape to the unique education policy, which the Government was dreaming of, he said.

He said the Government was serious on introduction of English from the first standard in Government schools.

A firm decision on donation menace would also be taken up by the next academic year, he said. To avoid lobbying for transfer by teachers community, a transfer policy would be evolved, which would help in solving the problem permanently and transfers would be done only through counselling, he added.

Schools warned

The Government would initiate action against those schools, which got permission to run Kannada-medium schools, but were teaching in English medium. Over 539 schools in Bangalore were cheating the Government by teaching in English, despite obtaining permission to run Kannada-medium schools, and action had been taken against them, he added.

Despite permission from the Finance Department to recruit 4,736 primary schoolteachers, the Government was not in a position to appoint them, as a case filed by the physically disabled persons was pending before the court. The appointment would be made in one week after the court cleared the case, he said.

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