Three Language Education formula in multilingual India

Abstract

The language debate in education in the formative years of India’s independence not only brought in awareness among the stakeholders of education, it also enabled the policy makers to fully attempt to realize the Constitutional vision of equality of opportunity, linguistic rights of every linguistic and ethnic community and moving towards the goal of achieving universal access to education. The paper explains the multilingual culture of Indian society in brief. The main objective of the paper is to examine the Three Language Formula in education. Study found out that some states implementing the three language formula while others openly denying it. Paper concludes that multilingual nature of Indian society is going to become bilingual. Only Hindi and English languages are becoming widely speaking languages than others.