Education Policy Draft Sparks Language Debate

The first controversy of Narendra Modi’s second term: Should teaching Hindi in all schools be mandatory?

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00:00Most of us in the South learn Hindi as a second language, but nobody in the North is learning Malayalam or Tamil or Kannada.

00:30You speak Hindi?

01:50The fact remains very clear that the three-language formula goes back more than 50 years to the

02:02mid-1960s and it has never been properly implemented. Most of us in the South learn Hindi as a second

02:09language but nobody in the North is learning Malayalam or Tamil or Kannada. So there is

02:14a real challenge in genuinely implementing the three-language formula. The solution is

02:20not to abandon the formula but to implement it better.