English to be taught in Kannada medium schools

Bangalore, Oct 7 (UNI) The Karnataka Cabinet today approved teaching of English as a subject in all Kannada medium schools from the coming academic year, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Basavaraj Horatti said today.

Emerging out of the Cabinet meeting, he told reporters here that it had approved teaching of English as a subject in lower primary schools. Likewise, a Kannada subject would be made compulsory in all English medium schools.

''Kannada will also be made compulsory, instead of optional, in the linguistic minority schools from the third standard,'' he said.

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