DHARWAD: The State Government is thinking of chalking out a new admission policy for schools and colleges on the lines of the one implemented by the Delhi Government based on the recommendations of Ashok Ganguly Committee.

Addressing presspersons here on Saturday, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Basavaraj Horatti said the plight of students and their parents in getting admissions in schools and colleges had come to the notice of the Government.

The Government had decided to chalk out a new admission policy to enable poor students to get admissions in schools and colleges. Based on the recommendations of the Ganguly committee, it was proposed to give admissions to children in schools situated in their respective areas. In this regard, a committee of experts for studying the education system and admission process in the State would be set up, he said.

No confusion

The Minister said that the Government had decided to teach English as a language from first standard and there was no confusion in this regard.

He said in the wake of the High Court's stay on penalising private schools for violating the language policy, a high-level meeting would be held on May 14 in Bangalore.

To a query, Mr. Horatti said deputy commissioners had all powers to initiate action against the tuition menace. Action would be taken against teachers of government and aided schools and colleges holding tuition classes at home.

The Minister said that officials had been directed to distribute textbooks to schools before May 29.

However, distribution of uniforms would be delayed by a week.

On the powers of school development management committees, he said the Government would implement the recommendations of the L. Hanumanthaiah committee.

On the recruitment of art teachers, he said art teachers or music teachers and physical education teachers would be appointed in all primary schools that had a strength of 280 students. The appointment of art teachers in high schools would begin after getting approval from the Finance Department, he said.

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