The Supreme Court on Thursday verbally observed that the Central Board of Secondary Education’s mandatory three-language policy should be introduced from Class 6 instead of Class 9, Bar and Bench reported.
This came after the board said in a May 15 circular that studying three languages would be mandatory for Class 9 students from July 1. Among the three languages, at least two must be Indian.
On Thursday, the court remarked that introducing a third language in Class 9 would be stressful for the students.
A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and R Mahadevan was hearing the Tamil Nadu government’s plea challenging a Madras High Court judgement that had directed it to set up Navodaya Vidyalayas in every district, Bar and Bench reported.
During the hearing, the topic of the three-language policy in Central Board of Secondary Education’s schools came up.
“Third language should stop in Class 9, not start in Class 9,” The Hindu quoted Nagarathna as saying.
The pressure of the Class 10 board exams starts as early as Class 8, she said.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court refused to stay the three-language policy for the 2026-’27 academic year, saying that “learning a language never goes to waste”, The Times of India reported.
The petitioners had contended that the policy being implemented in the middle of an academic session would impose additional burden on students and disrupt their preparation for...
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