On Friday, Marathi Abhyas Kendra, an organisation that promotes Marathi-medium schools, held a meeting with Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), after they held a ...

Even as Marathi was recently conferred the prestigious status of an Abhijaat Bhasha (classical language), the possible closure of Dadar’s Nabar Guruji Vidyalaya, one of Mumbai’s oldest Marathi-medium ...

Mumbai: More than 60 people, including teachers and students of schools run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), mobilised outside the BMC headquarters on Thursday morning to protest ...

MUMBAI: Unsafe school buildings combined with the preference of parents to educate their children through the English medium has led to a steady decline in the number of Brihanmumbai Municipal ...

BMC’s demolition of Marathi-medium schools under the guise of ‘dangerous buildings’ has triggered allegations of real-estate interests and manipulated audits. Parents and activists say there is no ...

Mumbai: At a time when there’s a language war playing out in Maharashtra, the number of Marathi medium schools has been swiftly dwindling in Mumbai, a result of government apathy and parents’ ...

Speakers at the Marathi Abhyas Kendra conference said the deliberate closure of government run Marathi schools is a pan-Maharashtra issue, disproportionately affecting students on the margins.