Chandigarh, Feb. 27 -- Punjab Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains has objected to CBSE's draft policy for Class 10 board exams in the 2025-26 academic session, criticising the exclusion of Punjabi from the list of main subjects and warning that CBSE certificates will be invalid in Punjab if the language is clubbed with foreign languages.

Speaking to ANI, Bains said, "CBSE published a draft policy for Class 10 for the academic session 2025-26, that the examinations would be held twice - in February and May... CBSE says that there will be 5 main subjects - Science, Math, Social Science, English and Hindi. The exams for these 5 subjects will be held as it is done at present. Besides these, they formed 2 sub-groups. One group has a regiona...