Bharathi told The Telegraph the party would oppose the “imposition” of Hindi on Tamil Nadu. So, the 1968 document said that along with Hindi and English, schools in the Hindi belt would teach another Indian language, “preferably a south Indian language”, while those in the other states would teach the regional vernacular. Rajput, former NCERT director, said: “The three-language formula has not been implemented (by the northern states) the way it was intended to. “If the three-language formula were properly implemented, most Indians would have become trilingual,” Mohanty said. The Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, the central government body running residential schools, too officially follows the three-language formula.

Source: The Telegraph June 02, 2019 22:56 UTC