A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court has ordered that the earlier language policy of studying Mahl and Arabic shall continue in schools in Lakshadweep as the court felt that the order on the three language formula has been issued by the Lakshadweep administration without conducting any study or consulting the stakeholders.
The Bench comprising Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice Basant Balaji passed the order recently when a writ petition challenging the decision to exclude Arabic/Mahl as an optional language from the Three-Language Formula (TLF) implemented in schools on the islands. The petitioner contended that the decision was hastily taken by the Director of Education without consulting the stakeholders and conducting any proper study on its implications on the education system on the islands. The education system prevalent in the Union Territory for the past 70 years had the option of Arabic/Mahl as a third language.
