The Maharashtra government has announced a major policy shift, merging separate boys’ and girls’ schools into co-educational institutions, bringing an end to the decades-old single-gender school system.

Under the new directive, any aided or government-run boys’ and girls’ schools operating within the same premises will be required to merge and function as a single co-educational institution under one registration number, as per the TOI report.

The order, made by the School Education and Sports Department, is an amendment of previous government decisions in 2003 and 2008. The order came after a directive by the Bombay High Court in Petition No. 3773/2000, which announced that boys and girls should not have separate schools for them, according to the media reports.

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