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‘Opposition to three-language policy largely rooted in a subverted mindset’: ABVP endorses CBSE’s decision

The Indian Express·Vikas Pathak·3 days ago
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The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the RSS-associated student organisation, began its three-day national executive council meeting in Bhubaneswar on Friday by endorsing the CBSE’s move. (Representative image) The ABVP has thrown its weight behind the CBSE’s decision to make three languages, including at least “two native Indian languages”, compulsory for Class 9 students from July 1, with its national general secretary Virendra Singh Solanki stating that the opposition to the move was a result of a “subverted mindset”. “The opposition… is largely rooted in a subverted mindset that has, over the years, projected the study of foreign languages as a symbol of exclusivity and social prestige rather than educational necessity,” Solanki told The Indian Express when asked if the decision would create problems for students given that some of them have already been studying foreign languages such as French, German or Japanese.…

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