Bengaluru: In the midst of border and linguistic conflicts between Karnataka and Maharashtra, the intelligent reality is that registration in Marathi Middle School in Karnataka has increased.
More than 1.09 lakh students currently study in 1,272 schools, assisted and private schools in the state.
Of these, 69,339 students were studying 950 Marathi schools managed by the state, with the remaining schools assisted by government or private in the same media.
Although recent studies by the Ministry of Education showed a significant decline in revenue in several minority schools, including Urdu Middle School, which has the highest registration, Marathi continues to be the preferred media especially due to a strong influence from the Border District of Border, Vijayapura and Bagalkot, All Maharashtra side by side.
While in the Council for the Winter Session of the Assembly, Minister of Primary and Medium Education B C Nagesh has visited several Marathi government schools.
But he finds it difficult to interact with students because most of them cannot communicate in Kannada, and the minister cannot speak Marathi.
“Local education officers who speak Marathi who make love in Kannada are acting as a translator for the minister,” said the aide near Nagesh.
While efforts to provide Kannada basic education to children in minority schools, most of them cannot take language as a way of communication between children not in the language of the country.
The Department of Commissioners of Public Instructions R Vishal said they had several requests from minority schools to introduce Kannada as a language.
“Although there may be politics involved in minority language schools, parents of children who learn there now want Kannada education because they will need at least functional knowledge about local languages ​​for further study and work,” Vishal said.
Other language schools such as Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam saw a significant decline in registration.
There is no registration in Malayalam secondary secondary school and only 233 children in the same language elementary school.
“Many linguistic minority families shift their children to English secondary schools,” said an official in the Ministry of Education.