Govt thinking of easing workload of homework for-4th-5th grade students: K'taka Education Minister
Bengaluru: Karnataka Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, BC Nagesh on Friday said the government is planning to lighten the Homework load of students in 4th and 5th grades in the state.
Speaking at a press conference in the city here, the minister asserted that the CM Bommai-led state government was giving a thought to easing the workload of homework to the 4th and 5th-grade students.
He further added that the students up to 3rd grade cannot be given any homework at the schools according to the NEP 2020.
Earlier, parents had urged the government to cancel homework for students and the expert committee had also supported the demand. The government however is still figuring out on lightening the workload of the student's homework, the minister added.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
