India, March 6 -- The Maharashtra government's language advisory committee, chaired by litterateur Laxmikant Deshmukh, has written to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis requesting an urgent meeting before the state takes a final decision on the report submitted by the panel headed by Narendra Jadhav on the implementation of the three-language formula.

In the letter sent to the CM on Thursday, the committee urged the state government to hear its views on the proposal to introduce a third language from Class 1. The committee has reiterated that making a third language compulsory from the first standard would be academically unsound and could place an additional burden on students.

According to the committee, it had earlier opposed the propo...