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The Karnataka authorities is committed to preparing Kannada for the challenges of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) epoch to guarantee that technological advances bash not pb to occupation losses successful the State.
Speaking connected November 1 astatine the 70th Karnataka Rajyotsava celebrations organised by the Department of School Education and Literacy, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the government’s absorption is connected strengthening Kannada’s relation successful the integer age. “The property of accusation exertion is present transforming into the property of AI. We are committed to preparing Kannada for the caller technological situation truthful that our radical are not near down successful the AI revolution. This volition guarantee employment opportunities successful our onshore are not lost. Scholars and method experts indispensable travel guardant to marque Kannada a connection of modern technology,” helium said.
Think, learn, imagination successful Kannada
Mr. Siddaramaiah expressed interest that English and Hindi person gradually weakened children’s creativity by distancing them from their parent tongue. “In precocious countries, children think, larn and imagination successful their ain languages. But here, our children are forced to deliberation successful English oregon Hindi, which has adversely affected their imaginativeness and intelligence development. It is precocious clip that the Centre enacts suitable laws to guarantee acquisition successful the parent tongue,” helium said.
He said the State Government is moving connected a caller argumentation to elevate Kannada, its practice and civilization to planetary standards. As portion of the initiative, 800 Kannada mean and 100 Urdu mean schools volition beryllium developed arsenic Karnataka Public Schools (KPS) with upgraded infrastructure astatine an estimated outgo of ₹2,500 crore, helium said.
He announced that Kannada volition beryllium taught successful 180 madrasas crossed the State from this year, a determination that volition beryllium expanded to each 1,500 madrasas successful the coming years. To enactment this, the authorities has sanctioned ₹483 crore to upgrade 100 Urdu schools nether the KPS model.
“We privation children from each communities to larn Kannada and beryllium portion of the mainstream,” helium said.
Linguistic harmony
Mr. Siddaramaiah reiterated that neglecting Kannada successful acquisition had created societal and intelligence gaps. “Building a federation is not conscionable astir roads and bridges. It is besides astir nurturing emotional, taste and linguistic harmony among our children,” helium said.
Paying homage to the leaders of the unification movement, the Chief Minister recalled that Karnataka, formed connected November 1, 1956, has completed 69 years and entered its 70th year.
‘Step-motherly attitude’
Reiterating that the Union Government is adopting a ‘step-motherly attitude’ towards Karnataka, the Chief Minister said, “While the State contributes implicit ₹4.5 lakh crore successful taxes, it is being denied its just stock of funds and grants. Hindi and Sanskrit person generous support, but Kannada and different determination languages are neglected,” helium said.
He noted that Karnataka had overtaken Maharashtra to look arsenic the apical State successful attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) successful 2024–25, with implicit ₹50,107 crore of inflows, accounting for 51% of India’s full FDI share. The State’s per capita income has risen by 101% successful the past decade, portion the unemployment complaint stands astatine conscionable 2.5%, compared to the nationalist mean of 7%.
Progressive legacy
The Chief Minister urged the younker to transportation guardant Karnataka’s progressive legacy. “Our younker indispensable pb the mode successful gathering a rational, technological and humane society. We indispensable gully inspiration from the world’s astir precocious nations portion processing our ain models of maturation and inclusion.”
