Many students want to drop Kannada as a subject
The Hindu
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Many students, who had taken up Kannada as a subject, have applied to drop the language. This comes just a day after the High Court of Karnataka issued an interim order that the Government cannot make Kannada a compulsory language for first-year undergraduate courses this academic year.
Students, particularly those from outside Karnataka, have already applied to their respective colleges seeking a switch to either Hindi or Sanskrit. A student who completed class XII from Mumbai and is pursuing a first-year B.A. programme at a college in Bengaluru said she was “desperate” to change the subject. “I attended a few classes in functional Kannada but I cannot cope. I would like to study a language I’m more familiar with,” she said.
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