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Every Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) indispensable support a minimum of 1 dedicated conception of students learning Sanskrit arsenic a 3rd connection successful Classes 6 and 9, according to a circular issued by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathana (KVS), an autonomous assemblage nether the Union Education Ministry.
There are presently 1,288 functional KVs crossed India, on with 3 operating internationally successful Moscow, Kathmandu, and Tehran. The circular, dated May 29 and accessed by The Hindu, is meant for each KV schools successful India and abroad.
“KVS has ensured that the argumentation remains delicate to its transferable pupil colonisation by maintaining Sanskrit arsenic a communal enactment crossed each KVs, portion offering determination languages arsenic an alternate for students who are not taxable to predominant transfers,” a elder KVS authoritative said, connected the information of anonymity.
“KVS already follows a three-language model with Sanskrit arsenic the 3rd language. Now students volition person a prime betwixt studying Sanskrit oregon a scheduled determination connection arsenic 3rd language,” the authoritative added.
Limited teachers, resources
Following 3 consecutive reminders issued connected April 10, May 27, and May 29, KVS has directed each KV principals to instantly expedite and implicit the information submission required for the mandatory implementation of the 3rd connection (R3) for Classes 6 and 9 successful the 2026-27 world year.
Under the guidelines, each KV schools indispensable cod R3 connection preferences from parents and students. The circular clarifies that the R3 prime (Sanskrit oregon a determination oregon State connection from the scheduled languages) indispensable beryllium wholly chiseled from R1 (Hindi) and R2 (English).
The authoritative acknowledged that a fewer KVs look challenges specified arsenic constricted teacher availability and assets constraints, but insisted that the usage of contractual teachers for determination languages, phased roll-out, and adoption of SCERT materials (where determination are challenges related to the availability of NCERT materials) volition assistance mitigate these constraints.
Timetable changes
Due to the mandatory rollout of R3 and consequent changes successful the schoolhouse timetable — which has altered subject-wise play allocations for respective subjects successful Class 9 — a precise recalculation of unit spot is required astatine the idiosyncratic schoolhouse level, the circular said. Staff calculations for assorted cadres crossed KVs are processed digitally done the Samagam portal.
Data amusement Sanskrit and Hindi are choices for 3rd connection successful galore Indian schools
“All Deputy Commissioners are requested to nonstop the principals to implicit uploading information of R3 connected (Samagam) portal connected oregon earlier June 5, truthful that the revised unit calculation done the portal whitethorn beryllium done astatine the earliest,” the circular said.
Schools tin signifier merged sections based connected pupil volume. For example, a azygous conception whitethorn accommodate a premix of students (a fewer choosing Sanskrit and a fewer choosing determination languages, if they are up to 15 students). Second, depending upon enrolment, determination could beryllium 1 conception of Sanskrit and 1 conception for determination languages. Third, determination could beryllium 1 conception of Sanskrit and 2 sections of determination connection oregon vice versa, but a minimum of 1 conception of Sanskrit successful each people is mandatory, the circular said.
