Congress MP and chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Digvijay Singh wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 5, warning that the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) order mandating third-language instruction for Class IX from July 1 is “likely to create serious disruption” and risks repeating the on-screen marking (OSM) row that hit millions of students nationwide. The committee noted that textbooks for regional languages envisaged under the National Curriculum Framework 2023 were not yet available. (PTI) Singh forwarded a signed representation from a group of concerned parents to the PM, calling the Three-Language Policy rollout mid-session “sudden” and “untenable.” The parents earlier wrote to Singh’s committee on June 5, requesting a full reversal of the mandatory policy for current Class IX students. “The sudden enforcement of this policy mid-session– without adequate teachers, textbooks, or transition time– is likely to create serious disruption, not unlike the chaos witnessed during the hasty implementation of CBSE’s OSM system, which adversely impacted lakhs of students across the country,” Singh wrote in his letter to Modi. …