Marathi Sahitya Mahamandal welcomes rollback of GRs making Hindi necessary from class 1
The Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Mahamandal has welcomed the Maharashtra authorities’s choice to withdraw two controversial Authorities Resolutions (GRs) that made Hindi or different Indian languages obligatory from Class 1 in colleges throughout the state. The choice was introduced by Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday, following sustained opposition from political events and language advocacy teams.
Milind Joshi, president of the Mahamandal, stated the rollback was a much-needed correction in favour of Maharashtra’s linguistic and cultural pursuits.
“It is a choice within the curiosity of Maharashtra and its college students. We wholeheartedly congratulate the Chief Minister and the federal government for withdrawing the GRs,” Joshi stated.
The Mahamandal had been protesting towards the 2 GRs issued by the state’s college training division earlier this 12 months. These GRs, issued within the identify of selling multilingualism, made it necessary for colleges to study Hindi or another Indian language from Class 1, sparking issues amongst Marathi language advocates who noticed it as an encroachment on the primacy of Marathi within the state’s curriculum.
He additionally identified that it was Fadnavis himself who had performed a key position in making the educating of Marathi obligatory in all colleges within the state. “We hope he continues to take choices that shield the rights of Marathi-speaking college students and strengthen using Marathi in public life,” he added.
The GRs had sparked sharp criticism from writers, educators, and civil society teams, who argued that such a coverage would drawback Marathi college students and medium, and was out of sync with the state’s linguistic identification. In latest months, the Mahamandal had issued public statements, written to training division officers, and took part in consciousness campaigns highlighting the implications of the GRs.
Following the rollback, a number of educationists and father or mother teams have additionally voiced assist for the choice, calling it a welcome step towards preserving the stability within the state’s multilingual training framework.
“We welcome the federal government’s choice to withdraw each GRs as an alternative of simply amending the clause that made Hindi or any third language obligatory from Lessons 1 to five, as demanded unanimously throughout Maharashtra,” stated Sripad Bhalchandra Joshi, former president of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Mahamandal and convenor of Marathichya Vyapak Hitasaathi (Motion for the Bigger Pursuits of Marathi).
Nonetheless, Joshi cautioned that there’s a actual hazard the federal government will now try and push the identical concept—of creating a 3rd language obligatory—by means of committees stuffed solely with hand-picked ‘consultants’ from throughout the ruling political fold.
