Supreme Court to hear PIL against CBSE’s 3-language policy. india news
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a PIL challenging the legality of parents and teachers in NCR and Chennai CBSEThe recent policy of MHA has made three languages mandatory for Class 9, two of which should be Indian and said that this will lead to chaos and confusion.Seeking urgent hearing on the PIL, senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi told a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul M Pancholi that suddenly, Class 9 students are being made to study two more languages compulsorily. “How will students deal with this and appear for the language test? This will create chaos and confusion among students and teachers,” Rohatgi said.The CJI-led bench assured that it will hear the petition next week. The plea, jointly filed by 17 parents and two teachers of children studying in Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon and Chennai through advocate Shraddha Deshmukh, said the new policy is contrary to the CBSE’s April 9 notification which had clearly assured that the third language “will not be implemented at the Class 9 level till the academic session 2029-30”.However, on May 15, after the academic session for 2026-27 begins and the language allocation is made and the timetable is finalised, the switch to three languages, two of which should be Indian, will cause irreparable harm to thousands of Class 9 students and take away the livelihood of many teachers skilled in teaching foreign languages as they will have to make way for teachers who can teach regional languages, the plea said. It said the problems faced by students and teachers have increased due to unavailability of textbooks and teaching material and CBSE is making ad-hoc arrangements by asking students to learn the basics of another Indian language from Class 6 textbooks. “Making a compulsory subject mandatory without textbooks, trained teachers or an evaluation framework does not amount to quality education; it is a constitutional violation,” the petitioners pleaded. scheduled caste To stop CBSE from compromising on quality education.
