Horatti writes to CS on 3rd language, bats for retaining old system

Bengaluru: Chairman of the Legislative Council Basavaraj Horatti has urged the government to drop the decision to introduce the proposed grading system for the third language subject in SSLC.

In a letter to Chief Secretary Shalini Rajneesh, Horatti said that this decision may lead to negligence among children while learning the third language.

“If we look at the SSLC results, there are many students who have got cent per cent by scoring 100 marks even in the third language, especially Hindi. This decision will have a negative impact on the learning level of the children,” he said.

Expressing concerns over the teachers teaching the third languages, mainly Hindi, Horatti mentioned, “It is the question of the lives of 15,000 Hindi teachers in the state.”

He requested the chief secretary to intervene and give instructions to the officials of the department concerned to drop the decision and retain the earlier system of awarding marks even for the third language subjects in SSLC.