SC to intervene if teachers face action over CBSE three-language policy

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will intervene if any adverse action is taken against teachers not following CBSE's three-language policy mandate for Class IX students.

A three-member bench headed by CJI Surya Kant made the observation while directing CBSE to file its response to a plea challenging the policy over the shortage of relevant textbooks and its sudden implementation. "Come to us, we will stay those dismissals," CJI Kant remarked while responding to a submission that action may be taken against teachers in case they do not teach the prescribed languages.

Speaking for the bench, justice Joymalya Bagchi orally remarked that a "native Indian language may be seen as an indigenous Indian language also".


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He added that CBSE notification was carrying forward the constitutional goal of learning Hindi and other Indian languages. "The nomenclature may require some relook. Spirit is very clear. The question is, can Indians consider English an indigenous Indian language? At one point, Persian was the language of this court, but is it there in the Eighth Schedule?" justice Bagchi verbally remarked.