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Clarify stand on medium of instruction, State told

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High courtround-up Some schools have challenged an order by the DDPI

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday sought to know from the State Government its stand on the issue of language in schools and the medium of instruction.The court made this observation when some schools filed a petition challenging orders by the Deputy Director of Public Instruction asking why action should not be taken against them for violating the undertaking they had given to the Government on the medium of instruction.The DDPI had said that the schools were to have taught the students in Kannada and they were permitted to teach in that language only. However, the schools had been imparting education in English, which is against the undertaking they had given.

When the matter came up, Justice Ashok B. Hinchigeri who is hearing the case, pointed to the Government about an undertaking it had given last year not to enforce the order. He sought to know what the Government's stand would be this academic year.

The pleader submitted that the Full Bench decision on Kannada language was still awaited and that it had reserved orders on Kannada language as the medium of instruction in the State. Mr. Justice Hinchigeri adjourned hearing on the case till next week and said the status quo order passed in earlier cases would hold good here too.

Permitted

Mr. Justice Hinchigeri permitted 39 students of a private educational institution in Mangalore to appear for the second year MCA examination. The court was hearing petitions by the students.

Visvesvaraya Technological University opposed any relief saying that the college had come for affiliation only after it admitted students. The court, however, directed the university to permit the students to appear for the examination, but said the results would be withheld until further order of the court.

Fees

A Division Bench comprising Justice Anand Byrareddy and Justice N. Ananda on Thursday directed a private medical college in Bijapur and a dental college in Bagalkot to collect fees for the postgraduate (PG) courses as fixed by the Fee Fixation Committee.

In the first instance, Raghavendra B. Gowder and 23 students admitted during 2006-07 said the B.M. Patil Medical College had asked them to pay Rs. 4.62 lakh while the committee had fixed Rs. 2.84 lakh.

They said they had paid Rs. 4.62 lakh as fees last year and the college wanted them to pay the same fees this year too.

The Bench asked the college to collect the difference of fees and adjust the fees they had paid last year to this year's fee.

The same Bench directed T.M. Nyamagowda Dental College to collect the difference of fees from nine PG dental students who said they were asked to pay Rs. 2.54 lakh, while the committee had fixed Rs. 1.26 lakh.

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