In support of its continued bid to make Kannada language compulsory till Class V, the Karnataka Government on Tuesday moved “Right of children to free and compulsory education (Karnataka Amendment ) Bill 2015”, which seeks to provide primary education from Class I to V in child’s mother tongue or in Kannada. The Assembly also adopted Kannada language learning Bill-2015 that seeks to make it mandatory for students of Class I to X of ‘all schools’ in the State to be taught Kannada as one of the compulsory languages in a phased manner from 2015-16. The Bills were moved in the wake of the State’s language policy being turned down by the Constitutional bench of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had rejected a revised petition seeking review of its ruling which upheld a Karnataka High Court judgment striking down its Government order issued in 1994 to impose Kannada or mother tongue as a medium of instruction in primary schools.