In a notification, the state government has mentioned that it will impose a charge of Rs 10,000 per day on schools that are running without formal recognition.

According to members of the Shikshan Hakk Samanvay Samiti (SHSS), a state-level coordination committee formed for unaided Marathi-medium schools that will undertake the protest along with the NGO Marathi Abhyas Kendra (MAK), the government in 2005 and 2008 had announced that there was a need to set up about 2,000 more Marathi schools, of which the primary levels would be run by the government while the secondary schools would be run by private institutions.