THE Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE’s) directive asking all of its affiliated schools to map students’ mother tongues in pre-primary classes and realign teaching material accordingly before the end of summer break has sent school principals into panic, but in Chhattisgarh, principals of all CBSE schools are in relax mood and they are not worried about this decision of board. Although, Chhattisgarh state has a mother tongue of Chhattisgarhi language, but still all of the schools adopt

 

Hindi as second language for decades and till date, there is no pressure to adopt Chhattisgarhi as second language in CBSE affiliated schools. It is learnt that, just a week ago, CBSE has released a circular, schools in Odisha, West Bengal, Maharashtra and southern states are facing problems. But in Chhattisgarh, schools are not facing problem due to this initiative of the board. “

 

As like of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, in Chhattisgarh too, students of CBSE schools are learning Hindi as second language for years. There is no such pressure to adopt regional language as second language. So here we are still teaching students of preprimary classes in Hindi. Thus, there is no need for CBSE schools of the state to map mother tongue as a part of second language in pre-primary classes,” said Sofia Khan, Principal of DPS. Therefore, CBSE schools of the state is not conducting orientation and workshops of teachers of their pre-primary classes to prepare curriculum in mother tongue as like schools of other states. In fact,

 

CBSE schools of the state have decided to conduct classes as per proper plan so that curriculum of elementary classes will be completed on and before January 2026 and schools will be able to conduct annual exams before March. Ashutosh Tripathi, Executive Director of Krishna Group of SchoolsRaipur stated schools of the state will use English and Hindi at foundational level and all of them will continue with that approach. All of school principals were of the view that they have discussed this issue with parents too and parents have also supported to continue classes with English and Hindi. None of the parents have pressurized schools to adopt regional language as part of study in preprimary classes.