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KDA chief for use of Kannada in High Court

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Siddalingaiah to write to Cyriac Joseph in this regard

Bangalore: Taking a cue from the Tamil Nadu Government's demand to the Union Government to allow use of Tamil in the Madras High Court, the Kannada Development Authority chairman Siddalingaiah on Thursday said he would write to the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court Cyriac Joseph on the use of Kannada in the High Court.

Dr. Siddalingaiah told presspersons that Mr. Cyriac Joseph had recently supported the view that the proceedings should be in the official language of the State.

He said that Kannada was already used in the subordinate courts and added that he would request the Chief Justice to clear the constitutional hurdles in the way of implementing Kannada in the High Court.

He said that the KSRTC managing director A.P. Joshi and his officers had agreed with him to do all correspondence, issue orders, circulars and notes in Kannada.

Action

Mr. Joshi, he said, had agreed to initiate disciplinary proceedings in a week against seven officers for using English.

The officers were Controller (Printing and Stationery) B.R. Krishnaiah Setty; Chief Accounts Officer H.S. Maheshwaraiah; Chief Mechanical Engineer C.G. Anand; Director (Security and Vigilance) Bhaskara Rao; Chief Personnel Manager S.L. Manjunath; Chief Manager (Marketing and Commuter Services) R. Nagaraja Rao and Chief Minister (Traffic) K.A. Rajkumar. Mr. Joshi, he said, wrote letters and orders in Kannada although he came from Uttar Pradesh, but the Kannadiga officers did not have commitment to their language. He called upon people to send the English communications sent by the government officers to him to facilitate the authority to take action against such officers.

The officers would lose an increment, and promotion prospects would be hit, apart from facing a reprimand.

The KDA chief said in the last ten years, 150 such cases had been reported, but not a single officer had been punished and added that he would write to the Chief Secretary to reopen the cases.

The boards of buses should be in Kannada and English. Dr. Siddalingaiah said the electronic tickets in Kannada would be distributed in Bangalore and Kolar districts in 45 days and all over the State in six months. With this, Karnataka would be the first in the country to introduce electronic tickets in the State language.

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