state policy on multilingual education in odisha 2014
Multilingual Education Odisha is a multilingual state having more than 40 ethnic language among the 62 scheduled tribes, along with the  Modern Indian Languages like Hindi, Bengali and Telugu. To  address the language- education of ethnic minorities children in schools, Odisha government started Multilingual Education programme,ten tribal languages. Led by Dr MAhendra Kumar Mishra, as the Director of Multilingual Education and  guided by Prof. D P Pattanayak and Prof Khageswar Mahapatra, the eminent multilingual Experts, the state  government started MLE programme in te tribal languages in 547 schools. 10 tribal languages were adopted. These are Santali, Saora, Kui, Kuvi, Koya, Kishan, Oroam, Juang, Bonda and  Ho. Culturally responsive curriculum and text books were prepared for class i to  Class V to maintain mother tongue based multilingual education to  educate the tribal children. State government appointed teachers from the same language community in the schools to teach the tribal children.A language policy was also formulated. The programme was also supported by Summer Institute of Linguistics led by Mr Steve Simpson and Vicky Simpson, Pamela Mackenzie. The curriculum and text books were prepared by the  tribal teachers guided by the MLE resource groups. It was initiated in 2005 and isnow running in  2250 schools with majority tribal children. This is a sustained MLE programme in Asian countries.About 7 Asian countries have visited the MLE schools.
Karnataka Karnataka is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, Goa to the northwest, Maharashtra to the north, Telangana to the northeast, Andhra Pradesh to the east, Tamil Nadu to the southeast, and Kerala to the south. The state covers an area of 191,976 square kilometres (74,122 sq mi), or 5.83 percent of the total geographical area of India. It is the seventh largest Indian state by area. With 61,130,704 inhabitants at the 2011 census, Karnataka is the eighth largest state by population, comprising 30 districts. Kannada, one of the classical languages of India, is the most widely spoken and official language of the state alongside Konkani, Tulu, Tamil, Telugu, Kodava, Beary. Karnataka also has the only 3 naturally Sanskrit-speaking districts in India.