The Maharashtra Government has launched a Marathi language learning programme for auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers across the state. Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik said around 4,500 teachers will ...

Mira-Bhayandar held a Marathi learning workshop for non-Marathi auto drivers after 565 were found unable to speak the local ...

Amid escalating debate over the mandatory use of the Marathi language in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday emphasised that while pride in one's mother tongue is essential, the st ...

Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik said the campaign will be conducted across all 59 Regional Transport Offices (RTOs) from May 1 to August 15.

The booklet, titled ‘Maharashtra is my state… Marathi is my language!’, has been brought out with the assistance of Marathi litterateurs and language experts. It contains simple Marathi phrases common ...

Mumbai: Transport minister Pratap Sarnaik has announced a statewide Marathi language education drive for non-Marathi ...

Union leaders said the free classes were aimed at helping drivers learn basic conversational Marathi so that they could communicate more effectively with passengers and comply with the state ...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday (May 1, 2026) said that while residents of the State should make efforts to learn Marathi, violence in the name of language is "unacceptable". Mr ...

Maharashtra Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik has announced that auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers in the state would be required to learn functional Marathi by August 15 to enable better communication ...

Around one-and-a-half years after its inauguration on May 1, 2024 by the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU); and nearly 10 years after it was first envisioned in 2016 as a centre of international ...

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister (CM) Eknath Shinde on Friday clarified that the state government is committed to ensuring that Marathi becomes not only a language of culture but also a language of ...

Licenses will not be cancelled solely on the grounds that a driver does not know the language, said the state government.