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THREE LANGUAGE FORMULA
OVERVIEW :
--- REVIEW OF POLICY DOCUMENTS
--- AIM OF 3 LANGUAGE FORMULA
--- WHAT IS THE FORMULA ?
--- ISSUES IN IMPLEMENTATION
--- REASONS OF NON-IMPLEMENTATION
--- POSSIBLE SOLUTION
--- REFERENCES
REVIEW OF POLICY DOCUMENTS
1948 1948 1952 1956 1961 1964 1968 1886 1992 2000 2005 2016
New Draft Policy
NCF
2005
NPE
1968
Kothari
Commission
1964-66
CABE
Radha
Krishnan
commission
1948-49
IMPLEMENTATION & REINFORCEMENT OF TLF
1986,1988,1992,2000,2005,2016
THE OFFICIAL ADOPTION OF TLF
1968 (National Policy On Education)
RECOMMENDATION FOR TLF
1952 (Mudaliar Commission)
ORIGIN OF 3 LANGUAGE POLICY
1948-49 (Radha Krishnan Commission)
2019
Mudaliar
Commission
Education Policy
AIM / IMPORTANCE OF 3 LANGUAGE FORMULA
NEED OF THREE LANGUAGE FORMULA
 Encourage and support regional language.
 Remove inequalities which come up with respect to language.
 Promote multilingualism and national harmony.
 Support linguistic diversity.
 Learning language is an important part of child’s cognitive development.
 To cultivate national integration & inter-state communication.
 Developing Hindi as a link language.
ARTICLE 29 , 350B1 ARTICLE 343 , 346 , 347 , 3512
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ARTICLE 350A3
LANGUAGE HINDI SPEAKING STATES
L1 Mother language (HINDI)
L2 ENGLISH
L3 Modern Indian Language
(Preferably one of the south
Indian languages)
• NON-HINDI SPEAKING STATES
• Mother Language/Regional Language
• HINDI OR ENGLISH
• Modern Indian Language
NOTE : Modern Indian Language :
EIGHT SCHEDULE of the constitution of India contains a list of 22 languages recognized
as scheduled language. They are -Assamese,Bengali,Bodo,Dogri,Gujarati,Hindi,Kannada,
Kashmiri,Konkani,Maithili,Malayalam,Meitei,Marathi,Nepali,Odia,Punjabi,Sanskrit,
Santhali,Sindhi,Tamil,Urdu.
ISSUES IN IMPLEMENTATON
 Uneven implementaton ofThree language formula : 3+1/-1
 Hindi speaking states are not keen to learn south Indian language.
 In south Indian states exceptTamil Nadu learn hindi but they find
english and regional language more useful for their future.
 Providing education for all children in their mother tongue is a
problem in many states.
 Those who come through regional language medium find it
difficult to cope with english at higher studies.
REASONS Of NON-IMPLEMETATION
• Fear of heavy language load
in school curriculum.
• To opt deliberately for the
dominant language that is
more relevent in getting
higher technical and
professional education.
• Duration for compulsory study
of 3 languages varies.
• Lack of adequate resources of
additional language teachers
and teaching material.
WhAT IS TO bE dONE ?
REFERENCES :
• Subhash “Three language formula in multiligual India : Problem and
Prospects”,Vol. 1 Issue 4 ,ISSN :2306-7063 , 2013.
• Leena Ratti “The three language formula : Challenges in its
implimentation in multilingual India”,Vol. 2.2,2015.
• K.Venkataramanam “What is the three-language formula?”,The
Hindu article ,8th june 2019.
• Government of India ministry of home affairs “Three language
formula”, 5th aug 2014.