For Marathi bhasha bhavan at varsity,book reading sessions as protest

At present,the Marathi department,along with five other languages – Hindi,English,Sanskrit,Pali and psychology – are housed in the Kher Wagmay Bhavan. Students of the Marathi department allege the present library is small and lacks facilities.

Manohar Jadhav,head of the department,(Marathi),UoP,said,”At the time of the establishment of the varsity in Pune,which is known as the cultural capital of the state,the vision was to promote the literary richness of Marathi. The demand has been long-pending. Earlier the then Vice-Chancellor Arun Nigvekar had agreed to the creation of such a structure after such a proposal was forwarded by the seniors in the department in 2000-01. But then he went on to become UGC chairman and moved to New Delhi. We are also pursuing the matter at the department level.”

Jadhav said a multi-storeyed building with facilities such as an auditorium,conference room,linguistic laboratory,library,gallery,museum and so on is among the infrastructural demands by the department. However,seniors in the department said they do not want to be associated with any political groups and that the matter would be pursued in accordance with the norms of the varsity.