Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court on Thursday asked all eight municipal corporations and the commissioner of municipalities to ensure that the content displayed on public notice boards must be in the Gujarati language. This directive came in response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by an NGO named Gujarati Vichar Manch. The PIL called for the full enforcement of a circular issued by the state sports, youth, and cultural activities department on February 18, 2022. This circular mad...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) that called for the use of Gujarati alongside English in court proceedings. Rejecting the PIL, the High Court asserted that this matter should be addressed before the Supreme Court. The PIL had sought that the High Court instruct the government to act upon the governor's authorization from 2012, which had allowed the use of the local language in High Court hearings. A bench comprising Chief Justice Sunita Ag...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has been given a four-week extension to the state government to respond to a public interest litigation (PIL) that calls for the use of Gujarati, along with English, in high court proceedings. The court has asked the government's lawyer to provide a response by July 21. The PIL requests the state government and the central government to allow the use of Gujarati, citing the authorization given by the Gujarat governor in 2012. The petitioner's advocate, Asim P...Read More

Gandhinagar: The State assembly today passed a bill mandating compulsory teaching of the Gujarati language as a subject in schools across the State from class 1 to class 8. The bill was passed unopposed with the support of opposition parties. The bill when becomes law will be effective from the new academic year of 2023-2024 in all schools across the State including the schools functioning under the Gujarat Education Board,  Central Education Board, and all other boards including the minorit...Read More

Amdavad: The Gujarat high court has once again emphasized the need for the state government to introduce measures for penalizing schools that do not teach the Gujarati language in primary classes. The court has suggested enacting a law similar to what other states have done for compulsory teaching of local languages in schools. The court made these comments during a hearing of a PIL filed by Matrubhasha Abhiyan, which demands strict implementation of a 2018 circular making it mandatory to tea...Read More

Gandhinagar: After the state's inability to implement the teaching of the Gujarati Language in Kendriya Vidyalaya, the Gujarat high court issued a notice to the central government regarding the matter. The state government has submitted that KVs are not under its control. While hearing the public interest litigation filed by Ahmedabad-based NGO Matrubhasha Abhiyaan seeking mandatory teaching of Gujarati in all schools. The court observed that the union government should be made a party to the...Read More

ગાંધીનગર: રાજ્યના પ્રવક્તા મંત્રી શ્રી ઋષિકેશ પટેલે જણાવ્યું છે કે, રાજ્યના વિવિધ તકનીકી, તબીબી અને અન્ય વ્યાવસાયિક અભ્યાસક્રમો માટે માતૃભાષામાં અભ્યાસ સામગ્રી ડિઝાઇન કરવા માટે નિષ્ણાત સ...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarati language was made a compulsory subject in classes 1 to 8, last month by the state director of primary education. Now, for mandatory teaching of the subject, the implementation of this order would be done in a phased manner by 2024. According to the sources, even when the education department had made teaching of Gujarati language in primary school classes mandatory in 2018 through a circular there were some schools that were not following the order. However, the s...Read More

Ahmedabad: In response to a PIL filed by Matrubhasha Abhiyan, the Gujarat high court on Tuesday sought clarification from the government of Gujarat on the implementation of the 2018 policy which made the teaching of the Gujarati language mandatory in all primary schools across the state from the academic year 2018-19. Petitioner argued in the court that with more and more schools offering education in the English language, and Gujrati medium schools decreasing, learning of Gujarati language h...Read More