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The eight-member committee appointed by the Maharashtra authorities successful 2025 to urge connected the implementation of three-language look successful superior education, submitted its study to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis astatine the State Secretariat connected Monday (February 9, 2026). The committee, headed by economist Narendra Jadhav, gave a 10-minute presumption connected it, and besides submitted different study connected however to present Artificial Intelligence and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) successful schoolhouse acquisition from Grade 1.
“I person suggested that the recommendations should beryllium implemented from the coming world year. The main study astir the recommendations connected 3 connection look consists of 65 pages, and 60 pages of annexture. The enforcement summary of the study is 23 pages. I americium not astatine liberty to sermon our recommendations astatine this stage. But I volition clasp a property league erstwhile the study is tabled earlier the furniture and erstwhile I perceive backmost from them,” Narendra Jadhav told The Hindu connected Monday (February 9, 2026).
He besides said that supplementary study connected the usage of AI successful superior acquisition was 25 pages long. Except Sadanand More and Bhushan Shukla, each different members of the committee were contiguous during study submission.
“The committee has submitted its study to us. We volition sermon it successful the furniture first. We volition spell implicit the recommendations and determine if thing needs to beryllium modified. The Cabinet volition springiness its suggestions. We volition springiness a briefing astir the contents of the study aft that,” Chief Minsiter Devendra Fadnavis said.
Last year, the Maharashtra authorities had to scrap its determination of implementing 3 languages successful superior education, aft determination was absorption from each quarters of the nine astir the compulsion of Hindi successful Maharashtra successful superior education. Children successful the State larn 3 languages from Grade 5 arsenic per the existent acquisition system. The government’s determination to bring the three-language argumentation successful superior acquisition was perceived arsenic an imposition of Hindi.
While educationists had contested the government’s determination connected the grounds that it volition overburden children successful superior acquisition with an further connection erstwhile the State acquisition strategy was not equipped to grip the existent subjects successful schools owed to deficiency of teachers. Several cultural, societal and governmental organisations had deed the crushed against the authorities against the imposition of Hindi astatine the outgo of Marathi.
Bowing to nationalist pressure, aft the authorities scrapped its decision, it appointed an eight-member committee nether Narendra Jadhav to survey the substance and to springiness its recommendations past year. The presumption of notation had stated that the committee volition survey the Raghunath Mashelkar committee study which had advocated three-language argumentation successful superior education, and springiness its suggestions. The authorities besides said that the committee should look into the wide tenets of the National Education Policy.
Accordingly, amid absorption by respective linguists and experts that the committee was being appointed nether an economist, and not nether a linguist oregon a specializer successful kid psychology, the committee had started its functioning. It had engaged with respective governmental leaders and socio-cultural organisations, and held meetings successful antithetic parts of the State to stitchery suggestions. After receiving extensions, the committee submitted its study connected Monday (February 10, 2026), a time erstwhile the results of the last signifier of section assemblage elections were declared.
