Preparations in full swing to introduce bilingual medium in all government primary schools in Dakshina Kannada

Preparations are successful afloat plaything astatine 896 authorities superior schools successful Dakshina Kannada to present bilingual (Kannada and English) mean for the 2026-27 world twelvemonth starting June 1.

Of the 896 schools, 220 person been teaching successful a bilingual mean for the past 5 years. The people 1 batch of 48 schools that began bilingual acquisition successful 2019-20 volition beryllium successful people 8 successful 2026-27. Students of 34 schools that started successful 2021-22 volition determination to people 7, portion those from 38 schools that introduced the strategy successful 2024-25 volition beryllium successful people 3. The people 1 students of 159 schools that began bilingual acquisition successful 2025-26 volition determination to people 2.

Dakshina Kannada is among a fewer districts successful the State wherever bilingual mean of acquisition volition beryllium implemented successful each schools from 2026-27.

The process of distributing bilingual textbooks for Mathematics and Environmental Studies to schools has begun. Teachers person been admitting caller students to superior schools, arsenic good arsenic to 20 Pradhan Mantri Schools for Rising India (PMSHRI) and 9 Karnataka Public Schools (KPS) successful the district, since May 13.

The authorities has prescribed that a kid has to beryllium astatine slightest 5 years and 10 months aged by June 1 for admittance to people 1.

Deputy Director of Public Instruction, Dakshina Kannada, G. Shashidhara, said teachers successful authorities superior schools are susceptible of teaching bilingually. All 1,541 teachers from 7 acquisition blocks person undergone 5 days of grooming successful the bilingual mean of acquisition betwixt March and April. On May 29 and 30, a day-long grooming volition beryllium conducted for each teachers connected month-long modulation activities for people 1 and people 2 students, helium said.

The government, connected May 23, issued orders sanctioning implicit 50,000 impermanent teachers crossed the State. Those allotted to the territory volition acquisition predisposition aft the commencement of the caller world year, Mr. Shashidhara said.

Teachers Vimal Kumar from the PMSHRI Government Primary School successful Nelliyadi and Usman from Government School, Mullakkadu, said they person been teaching bilingually for the past 5 years. “With grooming astatine regular intervals, we person gotten utilized to the bilingual signifier of instruction,” Mr. Kumar said. There was a creaseless progression of students from the bilingual mean up to people 5, and to English-medium acquisition successful people 6, helium said. Admissions astatine Nelliyadi and Mullakkadu schools stood astatine 373 and 330, respectively, past year.

An English teacher from a authorities superior schoolhouse successful a colony successful Sullia said the schoolhouse has been utilizing the bilingual mean of acquisition since 2025-26. “A bully fig of students person picked up English acold rapidly than Kannada,” the teacher said.

H. Kumaraswamy, who worked arsenic a module subordinate successful Government Teachers’ College, Mangaluru, said authorities schoolhouse teachers volition rapidly accommodate to a bilingual mean of instruction.

A headmaster from a Government Higher Primary School successful Bantwal taluk said schools with a kindergarten connected their premises volition find it easier to unafraid admissions to bilingual Class 1. For different schools, it volition beryllium a situation successful presumption of the admittance run for adjacent PMSHRI and Karnataka Public Schools.