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Sanskrit and Hindi as 3rd languages
April 7 , 2025
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- As per the last available survey, in Bihar, 99.1% of schools have taught Hindi, 64% taught English, and 56% taught Sanskrit in the primary stage, with only 8% teaching other languages.
- Similarly, in Uttar Pradesh, 94% taught Hindi, 75.3% taught English, and 65.2% taught Sanskrit in the primary, with just 7% offering other languages.
- For Uttarakhand, the numbers were 99.5% Hindi, 85.5% English, 79.4% Sanskrit, and 2.6% others.
- In Gujarat, over 97% schools had taught Gujarati and 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 Punjab, 79.2% schools offered Hindi, with less than 1% offering languages other than English and Punjabi.
- According to this trend, in non-Hindi speaking States, the third language is mostly limited to Hindi.
