The Supreme Court of India directed the Rajasthan government to frame a policy promoting Rajasthani language as a medium of instruction in schools, and to integrate it into education, recognizing its status as a regional mother-tongue, as per constitutional mandate upheld by Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta.
The petition to the Supreme Court argues that the exclusion of ‘Rajasthani’ from teacher recruitment violates children’s rights to education in their mother tongue. Despite the RTE Act and NEP supporting mother tongue instruction, millions of children remain deprived, as only 22 scheduled languages are recognized in education, undermining linguistic diversity.
