Third language: Hindi in non-Hindi States, Sanskrit in Hindi belt.

• The debate over Tamil Nadu’s refusal to adopt the three-language policy is ongoing, with the latest data lacking.
• The 2009 All India School Education Survey provided only the share of schools teaching three languages, without specifying the specific languages.
• The 2009 survey showed that in Bihar, 99.1% of schools taught Hindi, 64% taught English, and 56% taught Sanskrit in the primary stage, with only 8% teaching other languages.
• In Uttar Pradesh, 94% taught Hindi, 75.3% taught English, and 65.2% taught Sanskrit in the primary, with only 7% offering other languages.
• In Uttarakhand, the numbers were 99.5% Hindi, 85.5% English, 79.4% Sanskrit, and 2.6% others.
• In Himachal Pradesh, there was no enrolment for Telugu, Tamil, and French in the last 15 years due to unavailability of teachers.
• In Gujarat, over 97% schools taught Gujarati, 20.9% taught English, and 64% taught Hindi in the primary stage, with only 2.2% teaching other languages.
• In Karnataka, 97.5% offered Kannada, 86.2% English, 30.4% Hindi, and just 15% others.
• In Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Haryana, less than 60% schools had implemented the three-language formula as of 2023-24.