Maharashtra Language Panel rejects the government. Decide to mandatory Hindi in school

Laxmikant Deshmukh, chairman of the Language Advisory Committee appointed by the Maharashtra government, opposed the state government’s decision to make a mandatory Hindi decision. The panel urged the government to cancel the order in a letter to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

Maharashtra’s decision is part of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, making Hindi a mandatory third language for levels 1 to 5 on April 17, 2025. According to the NEP, the decision requires Hindi to be taught with Marathi and English.

The letter highlights several points, such as: “Elementary school students should be taught in their native language, and trilingual language policies should be implemented only at the higher level. Forced decisions on Hindi are unnecessary. Currently, Marathi and English are of poor quality in school education, as most schools have teachers in one or two languages ​​introduced one teacher. Reduced.”

The letter said that if Hindi teachers will be selected based on their spoken skills, then the employment of Marathi teachers will also be taken away. “This will lead to a cognitive burden on the brain of children. As mandatory mandatory in Maharashtra since 2001 and is required for parental approval and higher education, the state government adopted a “better and better English” policy, according to a report from the Language Advisory Committee.

Many linguists and linguists believe that due to Hindi, there is almost no linguistic and cultural damage suffered by any country to Maharashtra. Due to the extreme heterogeneity of language and scripts, Northern Indians and South Indians do not learn each other’s language as a third language. However, in Maharashtra, the language of Hindi is learned and taught. The panel said that if the people of northern India did not learn Marathi as a third language, despite the similar language, even as immigrants in Maharashtra, it was an insult to Marathi and its spokesperson to make the government enforce Hindi.

The Commission said that if we do not want Maharashtra to suffer more pain in the linguistic and cultural fields, the government should reconsider and cancel the decision to decide on mandatory Hindi.