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 ...

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, ...

Sagar T.S., the only student in Karnataka who was admitted to the Maharaja Institute of Technology (MIT) in Mysuru for the Kannada-medium mechanical engineering course for the first time in Karnataka, ...