NEW DELHI — Defending an educational mandate first adopted in 1968, officials assured the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the three-language formula is working flawlessly in principle, requiring only the minor additions of teachers, textbooks, and funding to function in reality.

The assurances come as the Court examines the "reasonableness" of the Central Board of Secondary Education's mandate, citing a severe "dearth of teachers and books." In response, education authorities confirmed that avoiding basic infrastructure investments has kept the policy highly sustainable for over 50 years.

"The 2020 National Education Policy explicitly states this formula promotes linguistic diversity," said a department spokesperson, reviewing a 2014 Kothari Commission report that deemed the policy's implementation entirely unsatisfactory due to a lack of political will and resources. "By ensuring no state actually receives the funds to hire language instructors, we ensure all students are equally underserved across regions, which is a cornerstone of national integration."

Records indicate the initiative has successfully maintained an unbroken streak of failing to materialize since its inception, with the status quo greatly benefiting textbook publishers in dominant language groups.

"We remain deeply committed to the aspirational goals of a robust multilingual environment," the spokesperson added, neatly stacking empty curriculum binders from three separate decades. "We look forward to another fifty years of rigorous legal debate over which languages the children will theoretically not be taught."