The clarification comes more than a month after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced that Class 9 students would be required to study three languages.
The new framework shows a shift in how subjects are structured and assessed, with a focus on flexibility, multilingualism, and competency-based learning.
The government had maintained that Hindi would not be compulsory, but mandated consent of at least 20 students per grade in a school for studying any Indian language other than Hindi.
It questioned the need to teach a third language when many schools do not have enough teachers, and students of higher classes struggle to read Marathi books of Class 2 level.
Calling it an unnecessary burden, educationists criticised this “imposition”, highlighting that Hindi, in Karnataka, saying it only meets the three-language policy but adds no value to students' knowl ...
The chief minister pointed out that those who were not given tickets in the Assembly elections were now being given nominated posts, as promised by the party.
