Overview
- CBSE, in a circular issued Thursday, gave all affiliated schools seven days to start teaching a third language in Class 6.
- Schools must begin classes even without official textbooks and use locally available materials that match NCFSE-2023 competencies.
- Each school must finalize its R3 choice, inform its CBSE Regional Office, and update the selection on the OASIS compliance portal.
- Only languages a school starts at Class 6 will be available to its students as options in Classes 9 and 10.
- The order implements the R1–R2–R3 approach from NCFSE-2023, and CBSE says R3 will reach Class 9 in 2029–30 as today’s cohort moves up.