In response to increasing opposition to the introduction of Hindi in Maharashtra schools for grades 1 to 5, the state cabinet decided on Sunday to retract two government orders regarding the three-language policy.

During a press conference in Mumbai, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced the establishment of a committee led by education expert Narendra Jadhav to propose the next steps and execution of the language policy.

Fadnavis claimed that former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had agreed to the Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar committee’s recommendations to implement a three-language policy from grades 1 to 12 and had formed a committee for its implementation.