Siddaramaiah even assured of speaking to Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy in this regard.
DHARWAD: The Kumaraswamy government’s proposal to start English medium in government schools received a big setback with the coalition partners’ Coordination Committee chairman Siddaramaiah reiterating his stand on continuing Kannada medium in the primary level.
Siddaramaiah even assured of speaking to Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy in this regard.At the valedictory ceremony of the 84th Kannada Sahitya Sammelana on Sunday, Siddaramaiah strongly propounded that primary education up to seventh standard should be imparted in Kannada medium.
“English is just a language. It cannot become a medium to gain knowledge, which can be easily acquired through the mother tongue,” Siddaramaiah said, adding that arguing for English medium to take up higher education is just a pretext.
