NAGEEB ABDULQADER BAMATRAF Vs. UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This petition was adjourned from time to time after hearing the parties in order to ascertain whether a pass in the subject known as Commercial Kannada is necessary for taking a degree in the B.B.M. Course of the Mysore University, 'B.B.M. Course' is an acronym for Bachelor of Business Management.

(2.) The petitioner is a student and a foreign national from South Yemen and his grievance is that as the University does not teach Kannada in the B.B.M. course, the University cannot insist on a student, that too a foreign student to obtain a pass in Commercial Kannada. The Kannada book prescribing the syllabus for the examination is also produced before me and what this Court could gather from that book is that the person who seeks to obtain a degree in the said course must have a working knowledge of Kannada, that is to say Commercial. Kannada, to put it in other words so that he would be in a position to correspond in Kannada in regard to the business matters when he actually starts practising in business management. The prayer of the petitioner is that since Kannada is not a compulsory subject in the University, it is impossible for him to obtain a pass in that subject and therefore, the University should be directed to amend the regulations prescribing commerce Kannada as one of the subjects for acquiring the B.B.M. degree.

(3.) The learned counsel for the University has filed its return and has contended that this subject is a compulsory subject not only for the petitioner whose mother-tongue is not Kannada but for any number of other candidates whose mother-tongue is not Kannada. It is mentioned in the return filed by the University that one student from west Bengal whose mother tongue is obviously not Kannada and who did not have any knowledge of Kannada had taken a First Class in the subject and therefore, any student can pass in this subject before he completes the course. There is yet another fact and that is the carry over system is permitted by this University so that a student can go on to the next year and only before he completes the final year he is expected to pass the examination in Commercial Kannada.