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This provides a framework and sets the path for school education of children in the next decade.

A revised document called the National Curriculum Framework for School Education was released in December 2000. The National Council for Educational Research and Training revised this document based on the discussion the original document generated. The language-related issues did not attract much attention for various reasons to be elucidated in the later part of my paper. The debate centered largely around the "hidden political agenda" of the curriculum, such as those relating to the teaching of history, teaching of Sanskrit, and teaching certain religious aspects, etc. The National Council for Educational Research and Training had released a National Curriculum Framework for School Education: A Discussion Document 1999 for public debate all over the country. My thrust in this paper is to ask for a new language formula since the clicheé-ridden THREE LANGUAGE FORMULA has neither been implemented in letter and spirit nor has it led to the effects its propenents thought that it would.

In this article I'd like to present a discussion on the National Curriculum Framework for School Education in relation to the teaching of languages in Indian schools.