languages is spoken by 10,000 or more people in India. Of the total population of India, 96.71 per cent have one of the Scheduled languages as their mother tongue, the remaining 3.29 per cent are accounted for by other languages. An analysis of UDISE+ data of 2021-22 shows that in States/Union Territories (UTs) of India, there are more than 30 languages used as the first medium of instruction at primary level up to Grade 5. This may be the largest basket of medium of instruction in the world. S.No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 46 Language as Medium of Instruction Hindi English Bengali Marathi Telugu Odia Kannada Gujarati Assamese Tamil Urdu Punjabi Malayalam Khasi Garo Bodo Mizo Nepali Sanskrit Manipuri Santhali Konkani Hmar Other Indian Mediums Karbi Bodhi(Ladakhi) Sindhi French Number of Schools with Primary sections having this as first Medium of Instruction 5,57,220 1,90,768 83,628 81,105 57,156 49,733 47,457 39,237 35,833 32,476 26,806 17,606 9,513 3,689 3,419 2,557 898 679 457 237 87 79 78 75 26 12 11 5 Journal of the National Human Rights Commission, Vol. 22, 2023