New Delhi, May 23 -- The Supreme Court today agreed to list next week a petition filed by parents and teachers from New Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida and Chennai challenging the Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE) new policy mandating the study of three languages for Class 9 students.
The petition was mentioned before a Bench, comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi, by senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, who argued that the sudden introduction of the requirement would disrupt students' preparation for Class 10 board examinations and place an unreasonable academic burden on them.
Rohatgi submitted that students who had so far been studying only two languages would now suddenly be required to learn ...