State Government Forms a Panel to Submit Report on Declaring Tulu as Second Official Language of Karnataka

Minister for Kannada and Culture, Energy V. Sunil Kumar said that the government has constituted a committee to study and submit a report on declaring Tulu as the second official language of Karnataka. The committee is headed by M. Mohan Alva, chairman, Alva’s Education Foundation, Moodbidri. The committee has been instructed to submit the report with its recommendations within a week.

A meeting was convened by Tulu Koota, Kudla, in Mangalore in July 2014, Vamana Nandavara, former president, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy. It was conveyed that the State government should first identify Tulu as a language of the State. Not doing so was a drawback to the demand for including Tulu in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, he added.