The Maharashtra government is mulling over making Marathi compulsory from Std I to X in all schools, Education Minister Vinod Tawde said in the Legislative Council on Tuesday. He said this in response to Shiv Sena MLA Vilas Potnis who pointed that states like West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Kerala had made their local languages compulsory in schools for all classes.

"The proposal is under consideration," Tawde said. He, however, added that it was a difficult task to make the language compulsory, he later told reporters. It has been a pending request for quite some time now.