MYSURU: The city-based litterateur Devanur Mahadeva, who has declined to chair the Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelan, on Thursday asked the Kannada Sahitya Parishat to ask the state government not to permit the private education institutions to open primary schools and to enhance the government quota to 50 per cent in the private schools under the provisions of the Right to Education Act.
Advocating elementary education in mother tongue, the septuagenarian Dalit writer told the Parishat president Pundalika Halambi that the Kannada body should take lead in gathering a movement seeking primacy of education in mother tongue rather than focusing on the literary meet, which, he felt, have become mechanical.
In an open letter to Halambi, which the writer released to the media, Mahadeva argued for building political pressure to push for Kannada as the medium of instruction. He, however, has also factored in the need to pick up English during schooling advocating teaching English as a language from Class I.
The letter comes a fortnight after Mahadeva declined to chair the 81 stedition of the meet planned at Jain pilgrimage centre, Shravanabelagola, in Hassan in early 2015. In response to Mahadeva's stand, the CM Siddaramaiah had said the government will file a curative petition in the apex court seeking a review of the judgment that quashed the government's 1994 language policy that mandated mother tongue as the compulsory medium of instruction in primary schools, the writer is unrelenting. Siddaramaiah, a close friend of the Dalit writer, had said he will speak to the writer. Last week, when the writer was asked whether Siddaramaiah spoke to him, he refused to comment.
In his 5 page letter, the author of Kusumabale has picked up holes in the Right to Education Act and asked the Parishat to take lead to get them to the attention of the political class. The RTE Act specifies that "medium of instructions shall, as for as practicable, be in child's mother tongue." This rider is an impediment for pushing primary education in mother tongue and should be done away with, he argued. Till Class III students should get education in their mother tongues, he said asking the Parishat to prevail upon the government to bring in changes to convert private education institutions, both aided and unaided, as government agencies promoting education in mother tongue.
The recipient of Padma Shri award expressed his displeasure about the SC judgment, which, he said, threatens 22 desi languages recognized by the Constitution. He asserted that none of the counties have tried to kill their mother tongues to embrace foreign language. He saw as a sign of subjugation the continued focus on education in English language even as he pointed out that many nations like China, Japan, Korea and Thailand have excelled as they have extended education in mother tongues. This helps in identifying local talent pool, he stated.
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