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The Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV), a Kannada organisation, has powerfully objected to the South Western Railway’s determination to behaviour a promotion introspection without providing Kannada arsenic a connection enactment and has warned of State-wide protests if the contented is not addressed.
On March 17 earlier this year, the Railways postponed its departmental recruitment examinations aft members of KRV raised akin objections against the tests being conducted exclusively successful English and Hindi.
In a property connection issued connected Monday, KRV president T.A. Narayana Gowda alleged that the railway authorities were denying Kannada-speaking employees the accidental to constitute the introspection successful their parent tongue. He termed the determination a usurpation of the linguistic rights of Kannadigas and demanded contiguous involution by the Railway Board and the South Western Railway administration.
According to Mr. Gowda, the introspection question papers are being prepared lone successful English and Hindi. He argued that hundreds of Kannada-speaking railway employees eligible for promotion would beryllium disadvantaged arsenic they would not beryllium capable to instrumentality the introspection successful Kannada.
Mr. Gowda said that Kannada is the authoritative connection of Karnataka and alleged that portion determination languages are accommodated successful different States, Kannada continues to beryllium ignored successful railway recruitment and promotion examinations conducted successful Karnataka. He described the determination arsenic discriminatory and called for each railway recruitment and promotion tests successful the State to beryllium conducted successful Kannada arsenic well.
The organisation has urged the authorities to either cancel the June 25 introspection oregon postpone it until Kannada is included arsenic an introspection language.
