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Maharashtra’s New Education Policy 2025
April 24 , 2025
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- The Maharashtra school education department has now made Hindi a mandatory third language in both Marathi and English-medium schools in classes 1 to 5.
- It is aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
- The new syllabus as per NEP will be implemented for Class 1 in 2025-26.
- For Classes 2, 3, 4, and 6, the policy will be implemented in 2026-27, for Classes 5, 9, and 11 from 2027-28, and for Classes 8, 10, and 12 from 2028-29.
- Until now, only Marathi and English have been mandatory from Classes 1 – 10 in government schools.
- While Marathi was always an integral part, the English was introduced as a compulsory subject around the year 2000, 25 years ago.
- As of now, Hindi is already compulsory from Class 5 in government schools.
- Hindi is taught for Classes 5, 6, and 7.
- From Class 8 onwards, Hindi can either be continued or replaced with Sanskrit or a foreign language.
- Maharashtra State Board also runs the schools in multiple mediums like Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Gujrat, Urdu, Hindi and Telugu and textbooks for these are developed by Balbharti.
- In all these schools, Marathi and English are already compulsory along with their language of medium as first language.
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