States, UTs free to determine modalities of implementing three-language coverage, says Union Minister of State

Since training is a topic beneath the Concurrent Record of the Structure, it’s as much as the respective State and Union Territory governments to determine on the modalities of implementing the three-language coverage, in accordance with the spirit and proposals of the Nationwide Training Coverage (NEP), 2020, Union Minister of State for Training Jayant Chaudhary stated within the Lok Sabha on Monday (July 21, 2025).

The coverage emphasised the promotion of multilingualism and encourages States/UTs to undertake the three-language formulation in a versatile method, taking native wants, linguistic variety, and implementation feasibility into consideration, the Minister stated. In his reply to a question by Virudhunagar MP B. Manickam Tagore and Namakkal MP V.S. Matheswaran, Mr. Chaudhary cited a provision within the NEP 2020, which acknowledged that the three-language formulation would proceed to be carried out, holding in thoughts the Constitutional provisions, however that “there will likely be a better flexibility within the three-language formulation, and no language will likely be imposed on any State.”

The Minister additional stated the Authorities of India commonly consulted specialists, linguists, State and national-level coverage makers, curriculum builders and implementers, practising lecturers and college students, mother and father, lecturers, instructor educators, mother and father, NGOs (and in addition college students) working within the area of coverage formulations and curriculum improvement.

“Previous to the formulation of the Nationwide Training Coverage 2020 and Nationwide Curriculum Framework for College Training 2023, numerous stakeholders have been consulted in particular person and in addition by digital means. All of the areas/States have been consulted and the opinions and practices of the varied college methods have been additionally considered for the making of the coverage,” he stated.

As a follow-up of NEP 2020, the Nationwide Curriculum Framework for College Training (NCF-SE), 2023, has been developed, and it supplies a roadmap for the implementation of NEP 2020 on Languages Training in India, he stated. “The NCF goals to make a pupil an unbiased speaker, reader, and author in a minimum of three languages denoted as R1, R2 and R3.”

Whereas R1 was the primary language by which college students study literacy, ideally their mom tongue or, if not possible, the State language, which might be a well-recognized language, with proficiency anticipated by age 8, R2 was the second language distinct from R1, with proficiency to be achieved by age 11. R3 was the third language totally different from R1 and R2, with proficiency focused by age 14, the Minister stated.