India, May 13 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Rajasthan government to formulate a policy for introducing Rajasthani as a subject in all schools across the state in a phased and progressive manner, underscoring that the constitutional vision of mother-tongue education and the National Education Policy, 2020 cannot be allowed to remain "dormant for want of executive action".

A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta held that the state must take "affirmative and time-bound steps" towards providing Rajasthani language education in both government and private schools, while rejecting Rajasthan government's stand that only languages included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution could be taught as additional language...