6 months ago
1
Five years aft the Union authorities introduced the National Education Policy 2020, which brought flexibility successful the three-language formula, authorities information tabled successful Parliament connected Monday (December 1, 2025) showed that a small implicit 16% of the Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs), tally by the Central government, crossed the state connection determination connection acquisition successful 10 languages.
Data submitted successful the Lok Sabha connected Monday by the Union Education Ministry showed that successful Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNV), besides tally by the Union government, a importantly higher proportionality of schools connection determination connection acquisition successful astatine slightest 1 of 18 “local languages”. However, this included Hindi successful the database of section languages.
The local/regional connection is included arsenic a compulsory taxable successful each Navodaya Vidyalayas from Classes VI to IX, the authorities said.
While the information provided by the Ministry showed however galore of these schools are teaching which languages, it did not specify successful which States these schools were in.
The authorities was responding to a question by Trinamool Congress MP Sharmila Sarkar. It noted that determination were 1,405 sanctioned KVs and 689 sanctioned JNVs crossed the country. Of these schools, 226 KVs connection determination connection acquisition successful 10 languages – Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi, Tamil, Malayalam, Assamese, Bodo, Marathi, Bengali, and Manipuri.
As per policy, Hindi and English acquisition are mandatory astatine KVs from Classes I to VIII. From Classes VI-VIII, Sanskrit is mandatorily added to this, and successful Classes IX and X, students tin take immoderate 2 betwixt English, Hindi, and Sanskrit.
This comes amid the ongoing governmental sermon implicit the three-language look prescribed successful NEP 2020, which provides for ensuring that astatine slightest 2 of 3 languages taught to schoolhouse students are Indian, wherever possible.
Of the 226 KVs that connection determination connection education, Punjabi is taught successful astir fig of schools (55), followed by Kannada (48), Malayalam (42), Tamil (36), and Assamese (26). The different languages are taught successful little than 10 KVs each. Minister of State for Education Jayant Chaudhary said successful the reply that the program astatine KVs had been designed portion keeping successful caput that wards of transferrable Central authorities employees enroll successful these schools and determination are provisions to contractually prosecute connection teachers provided astatine slightest 15 students opt for that language.
As for JNVs, the authorities information showed that 665 of the sanctioned schools thatch astatine slightest 1 of 18 determination languages but of this, 315 schools were shown arsenic teaching Hindi arsenic a section language. Apart from this, the section connection offered successful astir fig of JNVs was Assamese (taught successful 51 JNVs). The different 16 languages listed nether “local languages” taught astatine JNVs were recovered to beryllium taught astatine little than 30 schools each.
