Overview
- The Supreme Court refused to grant interim relief on the petition challenging CBSE’s three‑language rollout, and ordered the matter to be heard with related cases on July 14 after court recess.
- The NGO Friends of People for Active Democracy told the bench it is not opposing the three‑language policy itself but is contesting the speed and manner of its implementation.
- CBSE has continued operational directions for the July 1 start, including an order that schools update R3 offerings on the OASIS portal by June 30 and that Class 6 R3 textbooks in 19 scheduled languages be supplied before term start.
- To cope with teacher shortages and short lead time, CBSE authorized interim measures such as inter‑school sharing, virtual teaching, retired teachers and use of SCERT/state materials, and said R3 will have no Class X board paper and will be assessed internally.
- Petitioners seek quashing of the May 15 circular and restoration of CBSE’s April deferral until 2029–30, a dispute that now turns on readiness and logistics rather than the merits of the NEP‑aligned three‑language policy and will be resolved at the July hearing.