NEW DELHI (AFP) - India's right-wing Hindu nationalist government has ordered the country's civil service schools to replace the teaching of German with an Indian language such as Sanskrit in the "national interest", reports said Saturday.
The order has been given to the state-run Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (Central School Organisation), which comprises 1,092 schools across India serving children of army officials and other government personnel, according to the Indian Express newspaper.
Currently, German is offered in these government-run schools as an optional foreign language.
It was not immediately clear whether only Sanskrit would be allowed in place of German or also other official Indian languages such as Tamil.
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