BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Friday vacated a stay on the derecognition of schools coming under the Karnataka State Private School Managements' Federation and permitted the State Government to withdraw and transfer students from these institutions.

The court passed the order after the federation and several other schools from Hassan which had challenged the language policy of 1994, failed to file an affidavit undertaking to impart education in the medium of instruction in which they had been permitted to operate.

The Government said the schools had given an undertaking promising to teach in the medium of instruction in which they had been permitted to operate. It said a voluntary scheme had been formulated under which schools found violating the norms on the medium of instruction could pay penalty and escape derecognition.

The court had in an interim order on April 29, 2007 stayed till June 4 the notices of derecognition and directed the institutions to file affidavits stating that they would impart education in the medium of instruction in which they had been permitted to operate.

The cases had been posted for hearing on June 1.

He vacated an earlier interim order staying the order of derecognition and said it was open to the Government to take action withdrawing students from derecognised schools and transfer them to other institutions.

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