<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-o-story__header gmail-o-story-content" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;border-color:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px 15px 0px 0px;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:10px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><h1 class="gmail-m-story-header__title" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;margin:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:50px;font-family:"PT Serif",serif;font-size:45px;vertical-align:baseline;letter-spacing:-0.01em;outline:0px">Draft NEP: Change undermines spirit of 3-language formula, say dissenting panel members</h1><h2 class="gmail-m-story-header__intro" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;margin:30px 0px 0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:500;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:30px;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;overflow:hidden;outline:0px">Kasturirangan said the recommendation on having flexibility in the choice of languages was “misunderstood”, and said that there is “no coercion”, but the proposal “was understood to be otherwise”.</h2></div><div class="gmail-o-story__content gmail-o-story__content-side__ads" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:10px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail-o-story-content" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;border-color:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px 15px 0px 0px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><div class="gmail-m-story-meta" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 180px 0px 0px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:20px;font-family:"Roboto Condensed","Arial Narrow",sans-serif;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(123,123,123);overflow:hidden;min-height:45px;outline:0px"><div class="gmail-m-story-meta__credit" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;padding:0px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-spacing:-4px;outline:0px"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 15px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;word-spacing:0px;outline:0px">Written by <a href="https://indianexpress.com/profile/author/ritika-chopra/" class="gmail-bulletProj" id="gmail-written_by" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;color:rgb(43,110,168);text-decoration-line:none;outline:0px">Ritika Chopra</a> |</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 15px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;word-spacing:0px;outline:0px">New Delhi |</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 15px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:block;word-spacing:0px;outline:0px">Updated: June 5, 2019 8:04:42 am</span></div><span class="gmail-m-story-meta__shares" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;margin:25px 0px 0px;padding:15px 0px 0px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;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rtical-align:baseline;outline:0px">Following protests by political parties, mainly in Tamil Nadu, on what they called the “imposition” of Hindi, the HRD Ministry at Kasturirangan’s behest shared a revised document on its website on Monday.</p><span class="gmail-custom-caption" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:20px;font-family:"Roboto Condensed","Arial Narrow",sans-serif;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;display:block;color:rgb(123,123,123);outline:0px"><img class="gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-5765505 gmail-lazyloaded" src="https://images.indianexpress.com/2019/06/kasturirangan.jpg?w=759&h=671&imflag=true" alt="" width="759" height="671" style="box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; border-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background: 0px 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; height: auto;">Kasturirangan said the recommendation on having flexibility in the choice of languages was “misunderstood”, and said that there is “no coercion”, but the proposal “was understood to be otherwise”.</span><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:30px 0px 0px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:30px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px">“Parliament had approved the last National Education Policy in 1986 and thereafter the Ramamurti committee had approved the three-language formula. The (NEP 2018) committee has no intention of imposing any language and it isn’t mandatory to implement the formula, but to undermine it completely is also not acceptable. I do not agree with this change,” Tripathy, former chairperson of Uttar Pradesh High School and Intermediate Examination, told The Indian Express.</p><div class="gmail-m-story-ad gmail-m-story-ad--full" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;padding:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;width:100vw;outline:0px"><div class="gmail-m-advert gmail-m-advert--large gmail-m-advert--border-bottom gmail-m-advert--bleed" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 30px;background:0px 0px rgb(250,250,250);font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><div class="gmail-m-advert__inner" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;margin:0px auto;padding:0px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:flex;outline:0px"><div id="gmail-gpt_ad_IE_ROS_MID_728X90" class="gmail-ie-dfp-x175" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;margin:30px auto 0px;padding:0px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:center;width:1035px;outline:0px"><div id="gmail-andbeyond7281" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;margin:0px auto;padding:0px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;height:90px;width:728px"><div id="gmail-google_ads_iframe_/21751243814/324113-728-90-1_0__container__" style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0pt none;margin:0px;padding:0px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"></div></div></div><span class="gmail-m-advert__label" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;background:0px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:30px;font-family:"Roboto Condensed","Arial Narrow",sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;display:block;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.25);text-align:center;outline:0px">Advertising</span></div></div></div><div class="gmail-IE_Desk_3008" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;border-color:in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