New Delhi, May 23 -- The Central Board of Secondary Education, on Thursday, issued a guidelines, directing all its affiliated schools to adopt the mother tongue or a familiar regional language as the primary medium of instruction for early grades starting this academic session (2025-26), under the new National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-2023).

The latest directive, NCF-2023 - issued as part of the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 - places strong emphasis on the use of home languages during the Foundational Stage (Pre-primary to Grade 2, ages 3-8), as per the official statement.

The Education Board's latest directive has emphasised the following:

According to the directive, the directive has...