Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 2: In a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Vikram Malhotra social activist and a politician seeking direction to State for implementing the Government order no 222 Edu of 2006 in regard introduction of Dogri Subject in all private as well as Govt Schools in J&K, a Division Bench of State High Court Comprising Chief Justice (A) Ramalingam Sudhakar and Justice Sanjeev Kumar disposed of the PIL.
Division Bench after hearing Adv Tarun Sharma for the PIL whereas AAG Ravinder Gupta for the state observed that in response to various orders passed by this Court an affidavit has been filed by the Under Secretary to the Government, School Education Department dated 27.03.2018stating that in compliance to Government Order No. 222-Edu of 2006 dated 10.04.2006, the Secretary, J&K State Board of School Education informed that from class 1st to 5th, one of the Kashmiri, Dogri, Punjabi, Gojri, Bodhi and Pahari languages are to be taught as compulsory subject, while Kashmiri, Dogri, Punjabi and Bodhi are to be taught as one of the compulsory subjects to students from classes 6-8. DB further observed that it appears J&K Board of School Education has some reservation with regard to inclusion of the 6th compulsory subject in the curriculum, namely the Languages as above, because it would go against the norms of the Central Board of School Education/ National Open Schools prescriptions. To emphasize that, it has been stated in the affidavit that CBSC/National Open School norms prescribe five compulsory subjects and not six.
DB leaves it on Govt to take a decision on this issue in consultation with the J&K Board of School Education and to decide as to how the issue of languages, namely Kashmiri, Dogri, Punjabi, Bodhi should be addressed insofar as students of 9th and 10th standards are concerned. With these observations Division Bench closed the PIL. |
