Lack of student interest threatens closure of select engineering courses being offered in Kannada; these courses have no takers for past 4 years Despite the government’s efforts to strengthen Kannada ...

It was with much fanfare that the previous BJP government in Karnataka opened up the option of Kannada medium in engineering courses — Civil and Mechanical — after introducing National Education ...

The state government’s initiative to offer engineering courses in Kannada medium has failed to attract students, recording zero admissions for the fifth consecutive year (2024–25). Launched in 2020–21 ...

“In Tamil Nadu, it worked because they have reservations in jobs for those studying in the Kannada medium. Without such an incentive, no one will take up the course in Kannada here,” said a senior ...

Non-enrolment and lack of government support has cast a shadow on the Kannada-medium engineering courses, started under National Education Policy (NEP-2020) four years ago. In the previous years, ...