After the draft National Education Policy (NEP) was released requesting suggestions from the public, a demand by political parties in Mumbai to make the Marathi language compulsory in schools has sparked discussion. The demand is that Marathi should be taught in all schools in Maharashtra, irrespective of board.

While the students' wing of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has submitted a letter to the Deputy Director of Education in Mumbai, the student wing of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) had approached MSCERT (Maharashtra State Council for Educational Research and Training).

The NCP students' wing on Monday submitted a letter regarding it to the Deputy Director of Education Rajendra Ahire. "As the draft NEP is out and suggestions are invited, we have written to the deputy director of education. With many non-state-board schools making Marathi optional, the state's own language is slowly dying. With more and more parents now aspiring to take admission to non-state board schools, this number of students not learning Marathi will continue," said Amol Matele, president of NCP's students' wing. Ahire said, "We have received the letter and will forward it to higher authorities."