No authorities or Kannada medium college can be shutdown: Madhu Bangarappa

“Government and Kannada medium colleges within the State is not going to be closed for any purpose. We have deputed academics and mid-day meals staff in colleges with zero admission to different colleges. If college students enroll, we are going to restart these colleges,” mentioned the Minister.

During an interplay with The Hindu, he mentioned that there have been many faculties within the State the place just one scholar was enrolled, which have been additionally not closed. “We haven’t closed any Kannada medium colleges and have emphasised on beginning bilingual lessons,” he mentioned.

Mr. Bangarappa mentioned that steps have been taken to open college clusters on the mannequin of Karnataka Public Schools (KPS). “There are about 308 KPS colleges throughout the state, and there’s a big demand for these colleges from college students and fogeys. In this context, it has additionally been thought of to open college clusters and supply free transport amenities to college students,” he mentioned.

Bilingual colleges

Mr. Bangarappa additional mentioned that in 2023, the State authorities began 1000 bilingual colleges, and so they have been such an enormous success that the State Budget of 2025-26 introduced the establishing of one other 4000 bilingual colleges and that they have been already sanctioned. 

“To present high quality English schooling in authorities colleges, the English Medium Teacher Induction Program (EMTIP) is being supplied to academics of lessons 1 to 4, in affiliation with Azim Premji Foundation, and 20,000 academics have already been educated in English. It ensures entry to English language schooling for college kids of all sections of society. And, Spoken English lessons are being performed for college kids from lessons 1 to eight in all authorities colleges. Modules have been ready for every class, and KPS academics have been educated at Regional Institute of English (RIE). So far 38,56,826 college students benefited from this,” he mentioned.

KG lessons

The minister additional mentioned that the LKG and UK lessons began in authorities colleges have been an enormous success. “We have began LKG-UKG lessons in 5000 authorities colleges throughout the State this yr, and the response has been nice,” he mentioned, including that the dearth of LKG-UG lessons in authorities colleges was pushing dad and mom to confess their youngsters in personal colleges. 

“The Kalyana Karnataka Region Development Board (KKRDB) in Kalyana Karnataka established 1,008 pre-primary colleges final yr, nearly in the direction of the start of the admission season. In simply 4 days, 40,000 youngsters obtained admissions into these colleges,” he mentioned. 

CSR funds not been collected on the anticipated degree

Mr. Bangarappa mentioned that the plan to start out two mannequin colleges in each gram panchayat with the assistance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds by company firms was not profitable. “We had a plan to gather round ₹2,500 crore CSR fund to construct 500 mannequin colleges throughout the State. But, firms within the Bengaluru area should not coming ahead to construct colleges in distant villages. Therefore, we now have began a undertaking known as Our School-Our Responsibility and have given the accountability to the Deputy Commissioners and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of Zilla Panchayat of the respective districts to contact the businesses beneath their jurisdiction and procure CSR funds and begin mannequin colleges,” he mentioned. 

Teachers recruitment

Speaking in regards to the academics’ recruitment, Mr. Bangarappa mentioned that the Chief Minister had introduced to recruit 10,267 academics this yr. In addition, the federal government has accepted the filling of 5,000 instructor posts in aided colleges and 800 lecturer posts in Government Pre-University Colleges, he added and mentioned the recruitment course of will start as quickly as inner reservation amongst Scheduled Castes is finalised. 

Fostering constitutional values

The Minister mentioned round 1.04 crore college students of presidency, aided, and unaided colleges have been now studying the Constitution’s preamble each day, serving to in instilling in them constitutional values. He additional mentioned the Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) is observing the Gandhi Bharath yr by particular initiatives to commemorate the centenary of the 1924 Congress session in Belagavi. “All textbooks have a emblem saying Gandhi Bharath on its cowl web page and 7 social sins, written by Mahatma Gandhi on the bottom,” he mentioned.