Digvijaya Singh writes to PM Modi, urges to place CBSE’s 3-language coverage on maintain
Senior Congress chief Digvijaya Singh has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, flagging considerations over the necessary implementation of the three-language coverage for Class IX college students by the CBSE within the present mid-session, and urging him to place it on maintain.
Singh, who can also be the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Training, Girls, Kids, Youth and Sports activities, stated the sudden enforcement of this coverage mid-session with out enough lecturers, textbooks, or transition time, is more likely to create severe disruption, “not not like the chaos witnessed in the course of the hasty implementation of CBSE’s On-Display Marking (OSM) system”.
“I’m forwarding herewith a illustration acquired from a gaggle of involved dad and mom of CBSE Class IX college students, opposing the necessary implementation of the three-language coverage within the present mid-session,” Singh stated in his letter to Modi.
“Having gone by way of the illustration, I discover the considerations raised to be real and deserving of quick consideration. The sudden enforcement of this coverage mid-session — with out enough lecturers, textbooks, or transition time is more likely to create severe disruption, not not like the chaos witnessed in the course of the hasty implementation of CBSE’s On-Display Marking (OSM) system, which adversely impacted lakhs of scholars throughout the nation,” the Congress chief stated.
Additional, Singh stated, it has been dropped at his consideration that the CBSE’s governing physique in its assembly in December 2025 had ratified the Curriculum Committee’s suggestion that ‘faculties proceed with the present Scheme of Research, particularly on the subject of language, till the discharge of graded textbooks of languages by NCERT’.
Regardless of its personal Governing Physique’s resolution, the CBSE issued a round on Could 15, 2026, requesting the implementation of third-language instruction in Grade IX from 1st July 2026, the Rajya Sabha MP stated.
The NCERT has not but launched graded textbooks of language, and the CBSE has, due to this fact, really helpful using the NCERT’s Grade 6 textbooks, he stated.
It isn’t clear how and why the CBSE has so evidently overturned its Governing Physique’s resolution, and in a means that threatens the educational planning of hundreds of faculties throughout the nation, he stated.
Singh argued that the scenario is especially untenable for college kids within the Southern and North-Jap States, the place Hindi is just not spoken, and native tribal languages might not function within the CBSE’s recognised language record.
Sanskrit has emerged as a preferred third language selection for a lot of faculties, however it must also be famous that there’s a extreme scarcity of certified Sanskrit lecturers and acceptable textbooks, a scenario that will defeat the very objective of selling this lovely language, he stated.
“Rising above all different issues, my respectful suggestion is that the implementation of this coverage for present Class IX college students be placed on maintain instantly,” Singh stated in his letter dated June 5.
“I perceive that the matter is sub-judice, however that the decision of the honourable Courtroom is just due on fifteenth July, 2026. That is after the date on which faculties are supposed to be implementing the instruction of the third language (i.e., 1st July 2026), he stated.
“Subsequently, I earnestly hope that the matter will obtain your pressing and sympathetic consideration within the curiosity of the tens of millions of scholars whose tutorial futures rely on sound and well-prepared coverage choices,” the Congress chief stated.
Singh had additionally written to Prime Minister Modi just a few days in the past over the NEET-UG paper leak concern, urging the federal government to concern a white paper documenting the cases of paper leaks or irregularities in NTA-conducted examinations within the final eight years and the motion taken on them.
Singh had stated that at a time when lakhs of scholars are beneath heavy stress, it’s important to bolster their religion within the system.
The NEET (UG) 2026 examination, held on Could 3 by the NTA, was cancelled on Could 12 amid allegations of paper leak, which is now being probed by the CBI.
A re-examination has been scheduled for June 21.
