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Senior Congress person Digvijaya Singh has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, flagging concerns implicit the mandatory implementation of the three-language argumentation for Class IX students by the CBSE successful the existent mid-session, and urging him to enactment it connected hold.
Mr. Singh, who is besides the president of the Parliamentary Standing Committee connected Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, said the abrupt enforcement of this argumentation mid-session without capable teachers, textbooks, oregon modulation time, is apt to make superior disruption, “not dissimilar the chaos witnessed during the hasty implementation of CBSE's On-Screen Marking (OSM) system”.
“I americium forwarding herewith a representation received from a radical of acrophobic parents of CBSE Class IX students, opposing the mandatory implementation of the three-language argumentation successful the existent mid-session,” Mr. Singh said successful his missive to Mr. Modi.
“Having gone done the representation, I find the concerns raised to beryllium genuine and deserving of contiguous attention. The abrupt enforcement of this argumentation mid-session — without capable teachers, textbooks, oregon modulation clip is apt to make superior disruption, not dissimilar the chaos witnessed during the hasty implementation of CBSE's On-Screen Marking (OSM) system, which adversely impacted lakhs of students crossed the country,” the Congress person said.
Further, Mr. Singh said, it has been brought to his attraction that the CBSE’s governing assemblage successful its gathering successful December 2025 had ratified the Curriculum Committee's proposal that ‘schools proceed with the existing Scheme of Studies particularly with regards to connection until the merchandise of graded textbooks of languages by NCERT’.
Despite its ain Governing Body’s decision, the CBSE issued a circular connected May 15, 2026, asking for the implementation of 3rd connection acquisition successful Grade IX from July 1, 2026, the Rajya Sabha MP said.
The NCERT has not yet released graded textbooks of connection and the CBSE has, therefore, recommended the usage of the NCERT's Grade 6 textbooks, helium said.
“It is not wide however and wherefore the CBSE has truthful evidently overturned its Governing Body's decision, and successful a mode that threatens the world readying of thousands of schools crossed the country,” helium said.
Mr. Singh argued that the concern is peculiarly untenable for students successful the Southern and North-Eastern States, wherever Hindi is not spoken and section tribal languages whitethorn not diagnostic successful the CBSE's recognised connection list.
Sanskrit has emerged arsenic a fashionable 3rd connection choice for galore schools but it should besides beryllium noted that determination is simply a terrible shortage of qualified Sanskrit teachers and due textbooks, a concern that would decision the precise intent of promoting this beauteous language, helium said.
“Rising supra each different considerations, my respectful proposal is that the implementation of this argumentation for existent Class IX students beryllium enactment connected clasp immediately,” Mr. Singh said successful his missive dated June 5.
“I recognize that the substance is sub-judice but that the verdict of the honourable Court is lone owed connected July 15, 2026. This is aft the day connected which schools are meant to beryllium implementing the acquisition of the 3rd connection (i.e., July 1, 2026),” helium said.
“Therefore, I earnestly anticipation that the substance volition person your urgent and sympathetic information successful the involvement of the millions of students whose world futures beryllium connected dependable and well-prepared argumentation decisions,” the Congress person said.
Mr. Singh had besides written to Prime Minister Modi a fewer days agone implicit the NEET-UG insubstantial leak issue, urging the authorities to contented a achromatic insubstantial documenting the instances of insubstantial leaks oregon irregularities successful NTA-conducted examinations successful the past 8 years and the enactment taken connected them.
Mr. Singh had said that astatine a clip erstwhile lakhs of students are nether dense pressure, it is captious to reenforce their religion successful the system.
The NEET (UG) 2026 exam, held connected May 3 by the NTA, was cancelled connected May 12 amid allegations of insubstantial leak which is present being probed by the CBI.
A re-examination has been scheduled for June 21.
