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A caller plea has been filed successful the Supreme Court challenging a CBSE argumentation mandating the survey of 3 languages, including 2 autochthonal Indian languages, for Class 9 students opening July 1.
The plea filed by Fauzia Khan, an educationist and erstwhile Maharashtra Minister, contends that the CBSE's May 15 circular is arbitrary and unreasonable.
"The impugned circular acknowledges this teacher shortage successful its ain text, yet proceeds to mandate compliance. The effect is that the lone applicable intent served by the impugned circular, successful the confederate States, is the compulsory instauration of Hindi, and successful the bluish states, the compulsory instauration of Sanskrit, without immoderate stated acquisition rationale," the plea said portion seeking involution successful the main matter.
Ms. Khan, who belongs to the NCP-SCP party, said forcing non-Hindi states to present Hindi oregon Sanskrit violates the National Education Policy 2020.
The apical tribunal connected May 27 had issued announcement connected a plea challenging the CBSE argumentation mandating the survey of 3 languages.
According to a caller circular issued by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the survey of 3 languages, including astatine slightest 2 autochthonal Indian languages, has been made compulsory for Class 9 students opening July 1.
The determination is portion of the CBSE's alignment of its strategy of studies with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE) 2023.
"In bid to adequately code the competencies envisaged astatine the secondary stage, these textbooks volition beryllium supplemented with 1 due section oregon authorities literate material, selected by schools, specified arsenic abbreviated stories, poems, oregon nonfiction works," the committee said.
It added that elaborate guidelines regarding the enactment and pedagogical usage of supplementary literate worldly would beryllium issued by June 15.
According to the circular issued connected May 15, students opting for a overseas connection whitethorn bash truthful lone arsenic the 3rd connection aft studying 2 autochthonal Indian languages, oregon arsenic an further 4th language.
"With effect from July 1, 2026, for Class IX, the survey of 3 languages (R1, R2, R3) shall beryllium compulsory, with astatine slightest 2 languages being autochthonal Indian languages," the circular said.
The committee said till the dedicated R3 textbooks are available, Class 9 students shall usage the Class 6 R3 textbooks (2026-27 edition) of the chosen language.
The CBSE said to support the absorption connected learning and trim immoderate undue unit connected students, nary committee introspection shall beryllium conducted for R3 astatine the Class 10 level.
"All assessments for R3 shall beryllium wholly school-based and internal. The show of students successful R3 volition beryllium duly reflected successful the CBSE certificate. It is clarified that nary pupil volition beryllium barred from appearing successful the Class X Board Examinations owed to R3. Sample question papers, rubrics for interior appraisal volition beryllium shared by the committee shortly," it added.
The committee besides asked schools to update their R3 connection offerings for Classes 6 to 9 connected the OASIS portal by June 30.
