THREE LANGUAGE FORMULA IN INDIA
India
enjoys too many languages to choose a sole official/common language. However,
any nation needs (more than) one common language to communicate one another and
to unite the nation. Of course, in terms of efficiency and economically it is
better for a nation to have the least number of languages as an official
language. “The Three-Language Formula”, India’s most representative
language policy, is a compromise between different linguistic groups in India.
Though the term “the Three-Language Formula” is seldom used by the government
of India
in official documents, the term is widely accepted and used.
The Three-Language
Formula was worked out as a way of accommodating the interest of each
linguistic group. The formula is a policy to encourage them to choose and learn
three languages at school. The first one of the three languages, in most cases,
is speaker’s mother tongue/regional language while the second one is Hindi (a language of
national pride and unity). And the last one is English (a language of
administrative efficiency, technological progress and international communication).
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