The ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education) curriculum allows students to choose their second language from a variety of options, including:
* Hindi
* Sanskrit
* French
* German
* Latin
* Gujarati
* Marathi
* Bengali
* Punjabi
* Tamil
* Telugu
* Kannada
* Malayalam
Therefore, students can choose to study a language other than Sanskrit, or they can choose to not study a second language at all.
The decision of whether or not to study Sanskrit is ultimately up to the student and their parents.