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Updated January 10th, 2020 at 22:48 IST

Govt considering making Marathi compulsory: Ajit Pawar

Lamenting that many students can not read and write Marathi, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said on Friday that the government was thinking of making Marathi compulsory in all schools till class 10.

Govt considering making Marathi compulsory: Ajit Pawar
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Lamenting that many students can not read and write Marathi, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said on Friday that the government was thinking of making Marathi compulsory in all schools till class 10.

He was speaking at a felicitation program at Baramati, his Assembly constituency.

"The number of children studying in English-medium schools is increasing and they speak very good English. But they are not able to read and write Marathi properly," the NCP leader said.

"Very soon we are going to take up one issue, and that is to make Marathi a compulsory subject in schools, be it Urdu-medium, Hindi-medium or English-medium, from class 1 to Class 10," Pawar said.

"We all live in Maharashtra and every child should read and write Marathi properly," he said.

Some students may feel that their marks in class 10 and 12 will suffer if they are forced to study an additional subject, he said.

"But I would like to tell them, do not think of the only percentage. Our mother-tongue should be conserved," the deputy chief minister added.

Earlier, the NCP leader was accorded a grand welcome in the town as he was visiting Baramati for the first time after becoming deputy CM.

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Published January 10th, 2020 at 22:48 IST

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