CBSE’s Mother Tongue Circular Has Stumped School Principals. Everyone’s Interpreting It Differently
Fareeha Iftikhar | 11 June 2025 | The Print
The Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE’s) directive asking all its affiliated schools to map students’ mother tongues and realign their teaching material accordingly before the end of the summer break has sent school principals across India into a tizzy. Many of them have outright said it is impossible in the time frame.
The CBSE last week released a public circular in which it asked all its affiliated schools to chart students’ mother tongues, and by the end of the summer break (first week of July) realign the curriculum and teaching material so that a student’s mother tongue (or a familiar regional or state language) is used as the medium of instruction for them….