New Delhi, May 18 -- The Centre and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) have opposed before the Delhi high court a petition challenging the board's decision to introduce a compulsory regional third language for Class 6 students from the 2026-27 academic session. In its affidavit filed on May 6, the Centre asserted that the circular does not ban teaching of foreign languages and prescribes a minimum requirement of two Indian languages under the R1/R2/R3 framework. It said that the circular was not an "overnight diktat" but the result of a six-year policy-making process that began with the rollout of NEP, 2020. The Centre argued that the contention that students were already proficient in Hindi and English, and do not need another language, would logically result in the abolition of all third languages, including Sanskrit....