Peculiar situation for border students

 

About 25 upper primary and high schools of Kannada medium located in Ananta-pur and Kurnool districts. There is a separate Kannada medium high school is running at Adoni in Kurnool district. In view of language problem at border areas, Kannada medium schools were started in the Andhra Pradesh borders in1911 after Gadinadu Karnataka Association initiated.

 

Interestingly, books and material is being supplied by Karnataka government since 2010 after the association fight over problems. The Karnataka government had also issued GO 73 in June 13, 2011 announcing 5 per cent of reservation for Gadinadu students in technical courses while the Kannada medium students treated as non-locals in all other courses in Karnataka.

 

Most of the students had to join ITI or diploma courses with no other option due to non-local card in Karnataka.Similarly, they do not have options in AP. A leader N. Pushpavalli from D.Hirehal mandal lamented at least 150 SSC students are losing their future every year. “Only few of them joining Intermediate in Bellary while majority of them confined to ITI as they are treated as non-locals,” she observed.

 

Normally teachers of other regional languages are also recruited by the DSC of concerned districts of AP and the teachers are reportedly forcing the students at border areas to join into Kann-ada medium for the sake of their posts. K. Suresh, another graduate who did his course in Ka-nnada medium of D. Hirehal village, has been struggling to get private job as he had no option to compete either in Karnataka or AP in general recruitments.

 

Narasaiah, Gadinadu area leader from Madakasira de-manded at least one Kannada junior college in Anan-tapur and Kurnool district